Source(s)

Incidence & Prevalence: 2006 Chart Book on Cardiovascular and Lung Diseases. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. May 2006.

Calculation(s) by Book of Odds Based On

Population Estimates Program [Internet]. U.S. Census Bureau; Available from: http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php

Definitions

The diagnosis of overt vascular disease of the brain was based on the occurrence of stroke. Minimal criteria of nonhemorrhagic stroke consisted of the sudden onset of a localizing neurologic deficit (such as hemiparesis, aphasia, homonymous hemianopia); for stroke due to intracranial hemorrhage, a change in the state of consciousness, headache, and signs of meningeal irritation in association with bloody spinal fluid under increased pressure with or without other localizing neurological deficits. A diagnosis of embolus to the brain was made if a source for embolus (i.e., atrial fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease with mitral stenosis, recent MI, bacterial endocarditis) was present, the clinical course consistent (i.e., rapid onset and clearing, slightly bloody spinal fluid, a more localized deficit), or the occurrence of associated peripheral emboli elsewhere noted. A consultant neurologist and the clinical staff of the study reviewed hospital and clinic protocols. Starting after Original Cohort Exam 8, they have examined patients in the hospital with stroke.

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