Prevalence Of Stroke In Malaysia



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Prevalence of stroke in malaysia. Department of statistics malaysia block c6 complex c federal government administrative centre 62514 putrajaya tel. The mean age of stroke patients in malaysia is between 54 5 and 62 6 years. However prospective studies on stroke in malaysia are limited.

Address of nasam head office. Email protected save as pdf. In malaysia stroke was recorded as the second leading cause of death according to the malaysian national burden of.

A total of 11 284 stroke cases were reported from 2009 to 2016 from all our source data providers. To date neither the prevalence of stroke nor its incidence nationally has been recorded. Department of statistics malaysia tel.

The results of the present study on acute stroke in multi ethnic malaysia will significantly contribute to the global stroke epidemiological data. Nhms in 2006 the prevalence of stroke was estimated to be 0 3 among malaysians 8 in the fourth nhms survey in 2011 the prevalence of stroke was reported as 0 7 with 1 7 among those aged 55 59 years 2 in 60 64 years 3 in 65 69 years 3 5 in 70 74 years and 7 8 in 75 years and beyond 9 the same survey also illustrated higher prevalence. Although there is no national incidence or prevalence available at present it has been reported that stroke is one of the main causes of hospitalization in malaysia with 52 000 admissions to.

Hypertension is the major risk factor for stroke. The age adjusted death rate is 62 64 per 100 000 of population ranks malaysia 107 in the world. 603 7956 1876 email.

Stroke prevalence stroke is said to be the leading cause of chronic disability the second leading cause of dementia and the fourth leading cause of death in the united states u s. We aimed to present epidemiological data of stroke including incidence and prevalence rates as well as associated risk factors from a prospective nationwide hospital based registry from 2010 to 2014. This registry is essential as it allows data on our stroke patients to be consolidated and analysed in.

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