Sentence examples for stroke statistics from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, we found that the prevalence of diabetes was 10.8%, which is similar to the prevalence of diabetes noted in more representative populations (e.g., NHANES [9.7%] and 2013 American Heart Association heart disease and stroke statistics [11.8%]).

Trial and control regions were comparable in terms of case mix; their selection was based on similarity with national stroke statistics in terms of age, length of hospital stay, case-fatality, functional status at discharge, and destination after discharge.

(1) Go AS, Mozaffarian D, Roger VL, et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics--2013 statistics--2013 statistics--2013n Heart Assoociation.

The positive predictive value of fatal stroke in mortality statistics was slightly improved when autopsy results were available, but the change of sensitivity was not statistically significant (based on the overlapping of confidence intervals).

With fatal stroke from mortality statistics as the outcome the hazard ratio was 1.71, 95% CI [1.4, 2.08] and as the outcome from autopsy records the hazard ratio was 1.70, 95% CI [1.07, 2.68].

The validity of the diagnosis of fatal stroke in the mortality statistics was assessed by comparing the mortality statistics for which diagnosis had been based on autopsy results with those for which it had not (Table  2).

Costs for life time care are based on statistics for stroke and demography.

The mortality statistics regarding stroke and ischemic heart disease in Norway have not been validated against autopsy findings since 1977 [ 5 239/id].

The aims of this study were to compare the accuracy of the diagnoses given in the mortality statistics between stroke and ischemic heart disease against autopsy findings, and to identify predictors of a general post mortem examination being carried out.

This was true also of maintaining statistics about stroke patient populations in the community, which happened to some extent in a minority of local health areas and not at all in most.

In participants dying from stroke (according to mortality statistics), the autopsy ratio decreased from 41 to 4%, whereas in those dying from coronary heart disease it decreased from 38 to 14%.