Stroke incidence is decreasing in whites but not in blacks: a population-based estimate of temporal trends in stroke incidence from the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Although other studies (in largely white populations) have found that stroke incidence declined during the 1990s, we previously reported that stroke incidence in our population (18% of which was black) did not change during that decade and that incidence rates in blacks were significantly higher than in whites. We sought to update temporal trends in stroke incidence by adding new data obtained from our large, biracial population in 2005. The objective of this study was to examine temporal trends in stroke incidence and case-fatality within a large biracial population over time by comparing stroke incidence rates from 1993 to 1994, 1999, and 2005.

Methods

Within the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky population of 1.3 million, all strokes among area r

SUBMITTER: Kleindorfer DO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2904073 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature