Where to focus efforts to reduce the black-white disparity in stroke mortality: Incidence versus case fatality?

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1893-1898

  Howard, George ^a   Moy, Claudia S ^b   Howard, Virginia J ^a   McClure, Leslie A ^c   Kleindorfer, Dawn O ^d   Kissela, Brett M ^d   Judd, Suzanne E ^a   Unverzagt, Fredrick W ^e   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^f   Safford, Monika M ^g   Cushman, Mary ^h   Flaherty, Matthew L ^d   Wadley, Virginia G ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blacks; continental population groups; incidence; mortality; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CASE FATALITY RATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; ONSET AGE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84973390144     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.012631     Document Type: Article

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