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

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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probable cause of storke / tia (clindiagco)

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Valid: 164

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 156

End: 156

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Probable cause of stroke /TIA (or stroke like symptoms)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Intracerebral infarction	75	45.7%
2	Intracerebral haemorrhage	65	39.6%
3	Sub-arachnoid haemorrhage	4	2.4%
4	Malignancy	1	0.6%
5	Brain infection	3	1.8%
6	Embolic disease	1	0.6%
7	HIV	2	1.2%
8	Mitral valve disease	0	0%
9	Other	13	7.9%

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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