PMID: 16536301Mar 16, 2006Paper

A comprehansive evaluation on stroke prevalence among elderly in urban and rural areas of Beijing, 2002

Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi
Hong-jun LiuFei Sun

Abstract

To describe the prevalence and disability of stroke as well as the stroke-related diseases among elderly in urban and rural regions of Beijing. In 2002, three communities were selected from urban, suburb and rural regions from Beijing areas, respectively. Twenty percent of the elderly were randomly selected from three communities. The information about history of stroke, hypertension, heart diseases and diabetes, self-rated health (SRH), activity of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL), smoking and drinking habits, knowledge about cardiovascular diseases prevention were collected. A total of 2487 elderly were interviewed and the prevalence of stroke was 12.9% (321/2481). Eighty-seven of the stroke patients were diagnosed by CT/MRI. 19.9% of stroke patients had experienced 2 or more attacks. The highest prevalence of stroke was in the urban region and the lowest in the rural region (16.9% vs. 8.5%, P for trend < 0.01) while it was higher in males than in females (P < 0.05). The prevalence of stroke tended to increase with age in urban and 34.6% of the stroke patients had recovered completely. The proportions of poor SRH, ADL and IADL dependence, as well as the prevalences of hypertension, heart diseases and diabetes we...Continue Reading

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