Disease burden of stroke in rural South Africa: An estimate of incidence, mortality and disability adjusted life years

BMC Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Maredza, Mandy ^a   Bertram, Melanie Y ^b   Tollman, Stephen M ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Agincourt health and socio demographic surveillance site; DALY; Incidence; Rural; South Africa; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICAN; VERY ELDERLY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927523492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-015-0311-7     Document Type: Article

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