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Thursday, December 02, 1999
NEW YORK, Dec 02 (Reuters Health) -- A new study estimates the annual number of strokes in the US to be 750,000, exceeding by 50% the American Heart Association's previous estimate of 500,000.
And the number of repeat, or recurrent, strokes in the elderly was also found to be much higher than previously reported, according to the study authors.
In an interview with Reuters Health, lead author G. Rhys Williams said the reason for the disparity is that "previous estimates were based on the Framingham study, which was based on a predominantly affluent, white population." In addition, he noted, some of the previous studies only looked at first-ever strokes and did not consider recurrent strokes, as his study did.
Williams of the Knoll Pharmaceutical Company in Mount Olive, New Jersey, and researchers from Boston University in Massachusetts and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, based their estimate on 1995 data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, release 4. Their findings are published in the December issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Williams' team reports the occurrence of 682,000 strokes where the patient was hospitalized and estimates the occurrence of 68,000 additional strokes in which the patient was not hospitalized. The investigators put the stroke rate at 259 per 100,000 population. The rate increased exponentially with age and was higher in men, the investigators report.
"We conservatively estimate that there were 750,000 first-ever or recurrent strokes in the United States during 1995," write the researchers. They note that this number concurs with another study, which estimated the number of annual strokes to be about 731,000.
The authors say that their study "emphasizes the importance of preventive measures for a disease that has identifiable and modifiable risk factors and for the development of new and improved treatment strategies... that can reduce the consequences of stroke."
Williams said, "The problem is that patients don't recognize the symptoms and don't seek treatment."
He noted that the elderly were particularly at risk and added, "The key is more (emphasis) should be taken in educating the elderly population and workers at nursing homes about risks and symptoms of strokes."
[Karl Loren Comment: What SHOULD be done is to admit that the strongly recommended treatment protocol, so long-promoted as being very successful, is being increasingly recognized as a failure, and that the protocol, itself, is finally becoming seen for what it is -- a CONTRIBUTION to heart disease, not a treatment to prevent it.]
This could be done
"through TV or magazines that are popular with the elderly or old people
associations." SOURCE: Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association
1999;30:2523-2528.
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