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Author: Lee, Meng; Wu, Yi-Ling; Ovbiagele, Bruce
Title: Trends in Incident and Recurrent Rates of First-Ever Ischemic Stroke in Taiwan between 2000 and 2011
  • Document date: 2015_12_17
  • ID: 7hj8w0ld_18
    Snippet: The characteristics of the stroke risk factors in this study is generally consistent with a large stroke registry from 2006 to 2008 but the rates of statin (30% vs. 38%) and antiplatelet (87% vs. 94%) use during hospitalization were somewhat lower in this study. 15 While the current study included only first-ever ischemic stroke, the prior study 15 also included 34% recurrent ischemic stroke patients, which may have led the treating medical docto.....
    Document: The characteristics of the stroke risk factors in this study is generally consistent with a large stroke registry from 2006 to 2008 but the rates of statin (30% vs. 38%) and antiplatelet (87% vs. 94%) use during hospitalization were somewhat lower in this study. 15 While the current study included only first-ever ischemic stroke, the prior study 15 also included 34% recurrent ischemic stroke patients, which may have led the treating medical doctors to adopt a more aggressive vascular risk reduction strategy. Also hospitals participating in a stroke registry are presumably highly motivated to improve care quality and may generally have more awareness of/interest in the use of evidence-based therapies for stroke risk reduction. We found mortality rate was lower in this study, as compared to the prior stroke registry study (1.9% vs. 4% 15 ) which is likely due to the fact that this study only enrolled first-ever ischemic stroke.

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