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A Prospective Community-Based Study of Stroke in Germany—The Erlangen Stroke Project (ESPro)
Author(s) -
Peter L. KolominskyRabas,
Cinzia Sarti,
Peter U. Heuschmann,
Christian Gräf,
Sven Siemonsen,
Bernhard Neundoerfer,
Alexander Katalinic,
Erich K. Lang,
Karl-Günther Gassmann,
Theodor Ritter von Stockert
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.29.12.2501
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , case fatality rate , incidence (geometry) , intracerebral hemorrhage , epidemiology , population , pediatrics , subarachnoid hemorrhage , cerebral infarction , demography , surgery , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , ischemia , sociology , engineering
In Germany, basic data on stroke morbidity are lacking. If a population-based register in former East Germany is excluded, only routine mortality statistics have thus far provided information on epidemiology of stroke. Therefore, a population-based register of stroke was set up in Southern Germany to determine incidence and case fatality in a defined German population.

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