Risk Factors for Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa

Table 1

Characteristics of case-control studies included in the systematic review.

Author, year

Setting

Study design

Stroke type (IS/HS)

Cases ()

Controls ()

Gender

Hypertension

DM

Alcohol use

Current smoking

HIV sero-positivity

Hypercholesterolemia

Asiki et al. (2015)

Single center- South western Uganda

Case control

Not reported

31

132

+

-

-

-

-

+

-

O’Donnell et al. (2010)

Multicenter- Uganda, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Nigeria

Case control

214/109

323

323

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Owolabi et al. (2013)

Single center- University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Case control

60/30

135

117

+

-

+

+

+

-

-

Benjamin et al. (2015)

Single center- Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre district, Malawi

Case control

Not reported

222

503

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

Walker et al. (2013)

Multicenter -; rural Hai district in northern Tanzania,; and urban Dar-es-Salaam- Tanzania

Case control

66/14

200

398

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+ = information available; - = information not available.