Incidence of first stroke: A population study in Iceland

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1714-1716

  Hilmarsson, Agust ^a   Kjartansson, Olafur ^a   Olafsson, Elias ^a,b  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Iceland; Incidence; Population study; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; POPULATION STUDY; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880174755     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000222     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Mathers CD, Boerma T, Ma Fat D. Global and regional causes of death. Br Med Bull. 2009;92:7-32.
2. th century and projections into the future. Stroke. 2008;39:10-15.
3. Brown RD, Whisnant JP, Sicks JD, O'Fallon WM, Wiebers DO. Stroke incidence, prevalence, and survival: secular trends in Rochester, Minnesota, through 1989. Stroke. 1996;27:373-380.
4. Rothwell PM, Coull AJ, Giles MF, Howard SC, Silver LE, Bull LM, et al; Oxford Vascular Study. Change in stroke incidence, mortality, case-fatality, severity, and risk factors in Oxfordshire, UK from 1981 to 2004 (Oxford Vascular Study). Lancet. 2004;363:1925-1933.
5. The World Health Organization Monica Project (monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease): A Major International Collaboration. Who Monica Project Principal Investigators. J Clin Epidemiol. 1988;41:105-114.
6. Statistics Iceland. http://statice.is. Accessed September 22, 2010.
7. Adams HP Jr, Bendixen BH, Kappelle LJ, Biller J, Love BB, Gordon DL, et al. Classifcation of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Defnitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment. Stroke. 1993;24:35-41.
8. Tsang TS, Petty GW, Barnes ME, O'Fallon WM, Bailey KR, Wiebers DO, et al. The prevalence of atrial fbrillation in incident stroke cases and matched population controls in Rochester, Minnesota: changes over three decades. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003;42:93-100.
9. Hannon N, Sheehan O, Kelly L, Marnane M, Merwick A, Moore A, et al. Stroke associated with atrial fbrillation-incidence and early outcomes in the north Dublin population stroke study. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2010;29:43-49.