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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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Reference ID
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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First stroke in study or recurrent event (typestroke)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 128
End: 128
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Is this a first event in STS study or a recurrent event (check passport and full study register)?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 First stroke in study 137
81.1%
2 First TIA in study 30
17.8%
3 Recurrent stroke in study 2
1.2%
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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