Recent regional trends in mortality of stroke subtypes in Germany
Rücker, V.; O'Flaherty, M.; Hillmann, S.; Wiedmann, S.; Busch, M.; Heuschmann, P. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2017 · Heft 8/09 · S. 1 bis 1
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Introduction: Studies investigating recent time trends in stroke mortality for different subtypes are scarce. We describe sex and age-standardized trends in stroke mortality for different stroke subtypes in Germany from 1998 – 2014 and potential regional variations. Methods: Mortality and population data from the German federal statistic were used to calculate sex and age-standardized mortality rates for hemorrhagic stroke (HS) (ICD10: I60, I61), ischemic stroke (IS) (ICD10: I63, I64) and total strokes (TS) (ICD10: I60-I69) from 1998 – 2014 for all age-groups. Joinpoint® regression was used to calculate the aver…
