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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unilateral weakness / paralysis right/left (parasymprl)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 161

Invalid: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 216

End: 216

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Unilateral weakness/paralysis(Right/Left)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	left	85	52.8%
2	right	72	44.7%
8	Unknown	4	2.5%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		8

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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