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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Family history of stroke (famhxstroke)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 490

End: 490

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Has any member of your family had a stroke or died from stroke?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	148	87.6%
1	Yes, father	2	1.2%
2	Yes, mother	2	1.2%
3	Yes, sibling	7	4.1%
8	Don't know	10	5.9%
9	Missing	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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