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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1st stroke in study/recurrent event (typestroke)

Data file: stsl_fup

Overview

Valid: 124

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 41

End: 41

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Is this follow-up for a stroke or TIA?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	First stroke in study	91	73.4%
2	First TIA in study	33	26.6%
3	Recurrent stroke in study	0	0%
4	Recurrent TIA in study	0	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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