Pneumococcal Pneumonia and the Risk of Stroke: A Population-Based Follow-Up Study

• Li-Fu Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Fu Chen, Hsin-Pai Chen

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Pai Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Fu Chen, Hsin-Pai Chen

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan

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• Yung-Sung Huang,

  Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Yung Huang,

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Pesus Chou,

  Affiliation Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ching-Chih Lee

  * E-mail: hematcd@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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