- Title
- Trends in stroke attack rates and case fatality in the Hunter Region, Australia 1996-2008
- Creator
- Marsden, Dianne L.; Spratt, Neil J.; Walker, Rhonda; Barker, Daniel; Attia, John; Pollack, Michael; Parsons, Mark W.; Levi, Christopher R.
- Relation
- Cerebrovascular Diseases Vol. 30, Issue 5, p. 500-507
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000319022
- Publisher
- Karger
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Background: The Hunter area in New South Wales, Australia, is a well-defined geographical area with a population of 578,486 (2006). This paper presents trends from 1996 to 2008 for prospectively registered hospital admissions of adults aged 20 years and above with acute stroke. Method: Crude, age-standardised and age-specific stroke attack rates per 100,000 population and case fatality rates at standard time points were calculated. A medical record audit of stroke and stroke mimics was undertaken to determine discharge coding accuracy. Results: 9,796 acute stroke events were registered among 8,830 individuals at 14 public acute hospitals. Crude and age-standardised attack rates decreased consistently from 1996 to 2008. Crude rates fell from 184 to 176 per 100,000 population and age-standardised rates from 129 to 106 per 100,000 (attack rate reduction of 0.85% per year, p = 0.027; and 2.38% per year, p ! 0.001, respectively). Annual attack rates for females were on average 27.70% (p ! 0.001) lower than for males. Age-specific rates fell for each age bracket between 45 and 74 years. Case fatality rates remained constant. There was a 97.5% proportion of agreement between audit and coding. Conclusion: This study demonstrates falling stroke attack rates but stable case fatality over 13 years in a mixed urban and rural population of New South Wales, Australia. It suggests benefits from cardioand cerebrovascular prevention strategies; however, it also indicates that stroke remains a major disease burden in this region.
- Subject
- stroke; acute stroke; trends; attack rate; case fatality; epidemiology; Australia; gender; hospital-based register
- Identifier
- uon:9581
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922531
- Identifier
- ISSN:1015-9770
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