Age and geographic disparities in acute ischaemic stroke prehospital delays in China: a cross-sectional study using national stroke registry data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke has been the leading cause of death in China for decades. The extremely low intravenous thrombolysis rate is largely due to the prehospital delays that make patients ineligible for the time-sensitive therapy. Limited studies evaluated prehospital delays across China. We investigated prehospital delays in the stroke population across China and the associated age, rurality, and geographic disparities.

Methods

A cross-sectional study design was employed using the Bigdata Observatory platform for Stroke of China in 2020, the nationwide, prospective, multicentre registry of patients with acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Mixed-effect regression models were used to account for the clustered data.

Findings

The sample contained 78,389 AIS patients. The median on

SUBMITTER: Yuan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10166992 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature