Open AccessDetermining Stroke's Rank as a Cause of Death Using Multicause Mortality Data
Author(s) -
James Burke,
Lynda D. Lisabeth,
Devin L. Brown,
Matthew J. Reeves,
Lewis B. Morgenstern
Publication year - 2012
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/strokeaha.112.656967
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , cause of death , case fatality rate , incidence (geometry) , mortality rate , disease , demography , epidemiology , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , sociology , engineering
Stroke has fallen from the second to the fourth leading cause of death in the United States without large declines in stroke incidence or case fatality. We explored whether this decline may be attributable to changes in mortality attribution methodology.
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