Epidemiology of stroke in Northern Italy: The Cerebrovascular Aosta Registry, 2004-2008

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1071-1081

  Corso, Giovanni ^a   Bottacchi, Edo ^a   Giardini, Guido ^a   Giovanni, Marco Di ^a   Meloni, Teodoro ^a   Campagnoni, Massimo Pesenti ^a   Morosini, Massimo Veronese ^a  

^a Ospedale Regionale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case fatality; First ever stroke; Ischaemic stroke subtypes; Long term functional outcomes; Population based study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880916836     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-012-1185-8     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Murray CJL, Lopez AD (1997) Mortality by cause for eight regions of the World Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet 349:1269-1276
2. European Federation of Neurological Societies Task Force (1997) Neurological acute stroke care: the role of European neurology. Eur J Neurol 4:435-441
3. Warlow C, Sudlow C, Dennis M, Warlow J, Sandercook P (2003) Stroke Lancet 362:1211-1224
4. Schulz UGR, Rothwell PM (2003) Differences in vascular risk factors between etiological subtypes of ischemic stroke: importance of population-based studies. Stroke 34:2050-2059
5. Bamford J, Sandercock P, Tennis M, Burn J, Warlow C (1990) A prospective study of acute cerebrovascular disease in the community: the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project, 1981-86 Incidence, case-fatality rates and overall outcome at one year of cerebral infarction, primary intracerebral and subarachnoid haemorrhage. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 53:16-22
6. Kolominsky-Rabas PL, Sarti C, Heuschmann PU, Graf C, Siemonsen S, Neundoerfer B, Katalinic A, Lang E, Gassmann KG, von Stockert TR (2005) A prospective community-based study of stroke in Germany, the Erlangen stroke project ESPro: incidence and case fatality at 1, 3, and 12 months. Stroke 29:2501-2506
7. Lavados PM, Sacks C, Prina L, Escobar A, Tassi C, Araya F, Feuerhake W, Galvez M, Salinas R, Alvarez G (2005) Incidence, 30-day case-fatality rate, and prognosis of stroke in Iquique, Chile: a 2-year community-based prospective study (PISCIC project). Lancet 365:2206-2215
8. Feigin V, Carter K, Hackett M, Barber PA, McNaughton H, Dyall L, Chen M, Anderson C (2006) Ethnic disparities in incidence of stroke subtypes: Auckland Regional Community Stroke Study, 2002-2003. Lancet Neurol 5:130-139
9. Petty GW, Brown RD, Whisnant JP, Sicks JD, O'Fallon WM, Wiebers DO (1999) Ischemic stroke subtypes: a population-based study of incidence and risk factors. Stroke 30:2513-2516
10. Vemmos KN, Bots ML, Tsibouris PK, Zis VP, Grobbee DE, Stamatelopoulos S (2000) Prognosis of stroke in south of Greece: 1 year mortality, functional outcome and its determinants: the Archadia Stroke Registry. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 69:595-600
11. Petty GW, Brown RD, Whisnant JP, Sicks JD, O'Fallon WM (2000) Wiebers DO. Ischemic stroke subtypes: a population-based study of functional outcome, survival, and recurrence Stroke 3:1062-1068
12. Corso G, Bottacchi E, Giardini G, De la Pierre F, Meloni T, Pesenti Campagnoni M, Ponzetti C, Veronese Morosini M (2009) Community-based study of stroke incidence in the Valley of Aosta, Italy. Neuroepidemiology 32:186-195
13. World Health Organization (1977) Manual of the international classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death, ninth revision. Switzerland, Geneva
14. Hatano S (1976) Experience from a multicentre stroke register: a preliminary report. Bull World Health Organ 54:541-553
15. Sudlow CL, Warlow CP (1997) Comparable studies of the incidence of stroke and its pathological types: results from an international collaboration. Stroke 28:491-499
16. Goldstein LB, Jones MR, Matchar DB, Edwards LJ, Hoff J, Chilukuri V, Armstrong SB, Horner RD (2001) Improving the reliability of stroke subgroup classification using the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) criteria. Stroke 32:1091-1097
17. Dennis MS, Bamford JM, Molineux AJ, Warlow CP (1987) Rapid resolution of signs of primary intracerebral haemorrhage in computed tomograms of the brain. BMJ 295:379-381
18. Van Swieten JC, Koudstaal PJ, Visser MC, Schouten HJ, van Gijn J (1988) Interobserver agreement for the assessment of handicap in stroke patients. Stroke 19:604-607
19. Fay MP, Feurer EJ (1997) Confidence intervals for directly standardized rates: a method based on the gamma distribution. Stat Med 16:791-801
20. ISTAT 14 Censimento Generale della Popolazione e delle Abitazioni. http://dawinci.istat.it/MD/index.html
21. Ahmad OB, Boschi-Pinto C,Murray CJL, Lozano R, Inoue M Age standardization of rates; a new WHO world standard. http://www3.who.int/whosis/ discussion-papers/htm/paper31.htm
22. Feigin V, Lawes CMM, Bennett DA, Barker-Collo SL, Parag V (2009) Worldwide stroke incidence and early case fatality reported in 56 population-based studies: a systemic review. Lancet Neurol 8:355-369
23. Rothwell PM, Coull AJ, Giles MF, Howard SC, Silver LE, Bull LM, Gutnikov SA, Edwards P, Mant D, Sackley CM, Farmer A, Sandercoock PMG, Tennis MS, Warlow CP, Bamford JM, Anslow PB (2004) Change in stroke incidence, mortality, case-fatality, severity, and risk factors in Oxfordshire, UK from 1981 to 2004 (Oxford Vascular Study). Lancet 363:1925-1933
24. Islam MS, Anderson CS, Hankey GJ et al (2008) Trends in incidence and outcome of stroke in Perth, Western Australia during 1989 to 2001: the Perth community stroke study. Stroke 39:776-782
25. Benatru I, Rouaud O, Durier J et al (2006) Stable stroke incidence rates but improved case-fatality in Dijon, France from 1985 to 2004. Stroke 37:1674-1679
26. Carolei A, Marini C, Di Napoli M, Di Gianfilippo G, Santalucia P, Baldassarre M, De Matteis G, di Orio F (1997) High stroke incidence in the prospective community-based L'Aquila registry (1994-1998). Stroke 28:2500-2506
27. D'Alessandro G, Di Giovanni M, Roveyaz L, Iannizzi L, Pesenti Compagnoni M, Blanc S, Bottacchi E (1992) Incidence and prognosis of stroke in the Valle d'Aosta, Italy. Stroke 23:1712-1715
28. Feigin VL, Carter K (2004) Editorial comment - stroke incidence studies one step closer to the elusive gold standard? Stroke 35:2045-2047
29. D'Alessandro G, Bottacchi E, Di Giovanni M et al (2000) Temporal trends of stroke in Valle d'Aosta, Italy. Incidence and 30-day fatality rates. Neurol Sci 21:13-18
30. Scalvini S, Piepoli M, Zanelli E, Volterrani M, Giordano A, Glisenti F (2005) Incidence of atrial fibrillation in an Italian population followed by their GPs through a telecardiology service. Int J Cardiol 98:215-220
31. Ferro D, Loffredo L, Polimeni L, Violi F (2007) Underuse of oral anticoagulants in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in Italy. Intern Emerg Med 2:24-28