Clinical registries play an important role in measuring healthcare delivery and supporting
quality improvement for individuals with cardiovascular disease and stroke. Welldesigned …

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 …

World Stroke Organization (WSO): Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2019 - M Patrice Lindsay, Bo
Norrving, Ralph L Sacco, Michael Brainin, Werner Hacke, Sheila Martins, Jeyaraj Pandian …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Introduction: The prominent decline in US stroke death rates observed for more than 4
decades has slowed in recent years. CDC examined trends and patterns in recent stroke …

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 …

Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the United States since 1921, and
stroke has been the third leading cause since 1938; together they account for approximately …

Importance Heart disease (HD) and cancer are the 2 leading causes of death in the United
States. During the first decade of the 21st century, HD mortality declined at a much greater …