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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Nov 14, 2025

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family history of stroke (famhxstroke)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 83

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 186

End: 186

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Has any member of your family had a stroke or died from stroke?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	50	60.2%
1	Yes, father	5	6%
2	Yes, mother	4	4.8%
3	Yes, sibling	8	9.6%
8	Don't know	16	19.3%
9	Missing	0

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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