Determinants and Time Trends for Ischaemic and Haemorrhagic Stroke in a Large Chinese Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical epidemiology of stroke has been widely investigated in Caucasian populations, but the changes over time in the proportion of ischaemic to haemorrhagic strokes is less clear, especially in the Chinese population.

Aims

Our objective was to study the determinants and time trends for ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, in relation to age, in a large Chinese population cohort.

Methods

Using a medical insurance database in the southwest of China from 2001 to 2012, time trends in age-adjusted ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke incidence and the contributing risk factors associated with age were investigated.

Results

Among 425,901 individuals without prior stroke (52.4% male, median age 54), the rate of ischaemic stroke (per 1000 patient-years) de

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5042494 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature