Revised Framingham stroke risk profile to reflect temporal trends

C Dufouil, A Beiser, LA McLure, PA Wolf, C Tzourio… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Age-adjusted stroke incidence has decreased over the past 50 years, likely as
a result of changes in the prevalence and impact of various stroke risk factors. An updated …

China stroke statistics: an update on the 2019 report from the national center for healthcare quality management in neurological diseases, China national clinical …

YJ Wang, ZX Li, HQ Gu, Y Zhai, Q Zhou… - Stroke and vascular …, 2022 - svn.bmj.com
China faces the greatest challenge from stroke in the world. According to results from the
Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, there were 3.94 million new stroke cases, 28.76 …

Rising stroke incidence in young adults: more epidemiological evidence, more questions to be answered

Y Béjot, B Delpont, M Giroud - Journal of the American Heart …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
The burden of stroke is extremely high. Recent estimations indicated that the global
prevalence rate was 5 per 1000 person-years, corresponding to 33 million people living …

Wide variation in reported rates of stroke across cohorts of patients with atrial fibrillation

GR Quinn, ON Severdija, Y Chang, DE Singer - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Oral anticoagulants decrease ischemic stroke rates in patients with atrial
fibrillation (AF) but increase the risk of bleeding. For the average patient with AF, the …

Standards for statistical models used for public reporting of health outcomes: an American Heart Association Scientific Statement from the Quality of Care and …

HM Krumholz, RG Brindis, JE Brush, DJ Cohen… - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
With the proliferation of efforts to report publicly the outcomes of healthcare providers and
institutions, there is a growing need to define standards for the methods that are being …

Trends in mortality from coronary heart and cerebrovascular diseases in the Americas: 1970–2000

T Rodríguez, M Malvezzi, L Chatenoud, C Bosetti… - Heart, 2006 - heart.bmj.com
Objective: To describe trends in mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) and
cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) over the period 1970 to 2000 in the Americas. Methods …

Essential features of a surveillance system to support the prevention and management of heart disease and stroke: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

DC Goff Jr, L Brass, LT Braun, JB Croft, JD Flesch… - Circulation, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
A strategic goal of the American Heart Association (AHA) is to reduce heart disease, stroke,
and risk for both by 25%, 1 and Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) established 4 national goals …

National trends in rates of death and hospital admissions related to acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke, 1994–2004

JV Tu, L Nardi, J Fang, J Liu, L Khalid, H Johansen - Cmaj, 2009 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Rates of death from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have been
steadily declining over the past few decades. Whether such declines are occurring to a …

Prevalence of stroke--United States, 2005.

Centers for Disease Control and … - MMWR: Morbidity & …, 2007 - search.ebscohost.com
Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the United States. Stroke also results in
substantial health-care expenditures; the mean lifetime cost resulting from an ischemic …

The American Heart Association's 2008 statement of principles for healthcare reform

RJ Gibbons, DW Jones, TJ Gardner, LB Goldstein… - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
Background As the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to
reducing death and disability from cardiovascular diseases and stroke, the AHA has focused …