Valery L Feigin, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Rita Krishnamurthi, George A Mensah, Myles Connor, Derrick A Bennett, Andrew E Moran, Ralph L Sacco, Laurie Anderson, Thomas Truelsen, Martin O'Donnell, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Carlene M M Lawes, Wenzhi Wang, Yukito Shinohara, Emma Witt, Majid Ezzati, Mohsen Naghavi, Christopher Murray
BACKGROUND: Although stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, no comprehensive and comparable assessment of incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, and epidemiological trends has been estimated for most regions. We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010) to estimate the global and regional burden of stroke during 1990-2010. METHODS: We searched Medline, Embase, LILACS, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Global Health Database, the WHO library, and WHO regional databases from 1990 to 2012 to identify relevant studies published between 1990 and 2010...
January 18, 2014: Lancet