Background and Purpose—Stroke mortality has been declining since the early 20th century.
The reasons for this are not completely understood, although the decline is welcome. As a …

China faces the greatest challenge from stroke in the world. The death rate for
cerebrovascular diseases in China was 149.49 per 100 000, accounting for 1.57 million …

This document details the procedures and recommendations of the Goals and Metrics
Committee of the Strategic Planning Task Force of the American Heart Association, which …

This article provides an update for 2015 on the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD),
with a particular focus on coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, across the countries of …

Background The lifetime risk of stroke has been calculated in a limited number of selected
populations. We sought to estimate the lifetime risk of stroke at the regional, country, and …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes one in three (approximately 800,000) deaths
reported each year in the United States. Annual direct and overall costs resulting from CVD …

Each year, more than 2 million Americans have a heart attack or stroke, and more than
800,000 of them die; cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United …

In many countries, stroke is a lower priority than other diseases despite its public health
impact. One issue is a lack of readily accessible comparative data to help make the case for …

According to updated statistics, cardiovascular disease is the first cause of death both in
United States (source: American Heart Association, 2013) and worldwide (data of the World …

Background Whether changes in stroke mortality are affected by age distribution and birth
cohorts, and if the decline in stroke mortality exhibits heterogeneity by stroke type, remains …