Prognosis with stroke in Europe: a collaborative study of population-based cohorts. Neurologic Diseases in the Elderly Research Group

Schmidt, R.; Breteler, M.M.; Inzitari, D.; Fratiglioni, L.; Hofman, A.; Launer, L.J.

Neurology 54(11 Suppl 5: S34-S37

2000


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3878
PMID: 10854360
Document Number: 515471
The authors pooled four population-based European studies to determine the risk for institutionalization and death after stroke. Risk for institutionalization was assessed in 13,095 subjects. Survival was calculated for prevalent stroke in 7929 individuals and incident stroke in 8550 individuals. The adjusted risk of long-term care for cases compared to noncases was 2.8 (95% CI 2.6 to 4.5). At 5 years, the excess risk of death in prevalent cases was 1.6 (1.2 to 2.0), and the age- and sex-adjusted survival rate was 0.87 compared to 0.91 in noncases. The 5-year survival rate for incident cases was 0.84.

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