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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type of heart disease diagnosed (typehtd)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 10

Invalid: 159

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 464

End: 464

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Relevant if Q10.21[diaheart]:Have you ever been diagnosed with heart disease by a doctor or other health professional? =Y=0(yes )

Literal question

Type of heart disease you diagnosed?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Angina	4	40%
2	Heart attack	0	0%
3	Heart failure	6	60%
4	Other	0	0%
8	Don't know	0	0%
Sysmiss		159

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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