STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Chilumba, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Karonga

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Karonga HDSS

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Symptom leg weakness (regweakleg)

Data file: sts_com

Overview

Valid: 396

Invalid: 1

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 59

End: 59

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Symptom leg weakness

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	262	66.2%
1	Right	27	6.8%
2	Left	27	6.8%
3	Yes, side not specified	43	10.9%
8	Unknown	37	9.3%
9	Missing	1

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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