Incidence of Stroke in Young Adults: A Review

Table 1

Studies on incidence of stroke in the young.

Study			95% CI		Adjusted rate*
	Person* year	Crude rate	LL	UL
Stockholm	4,712,240	15.56	14.43	16.68	17.25
Benghazi	158,348	39.79	29.96	49.61	48.51
Lund-Orup	97,283	9.25	3.21	15.30	9.28
Denmark	13,144,499	14.94	14.28	15.60	11.21
Dijon	75,880	26.36	14.81	37.91	31.42
Florence	531,597	8.84	6.31	11.37	8.88
OCSP	226,936	9.64	5.60	13.68	9.74
Russia^†	350,432	19.12	14.54	23.70	19.13
Baltimore whites	388,532	13.64	9.97	17.31	14.14
Baltimore blacks	272,464	30.83	24.24	37.42	34.20
Reggio Emilia	212,646	13.64	8.67	18.60	13.95
Aosta 1988	67,784	13.28	4.60	21.95	13.26
Rochester	1,297,209	8.63	7.03	10.23	14.21
Malmö^†	127,581	11.76	5.81	17.71	10.06
Israel	2,170,500	5.76	4.75	6.77	6.14
Auckland	456,667	20.15	16.03	24.26	21.02
Perth	93,086	20.41	11.23	29.59	13.83
Warsaw	230,108	16.51	11.26	21.76	13.51
Belluno	126,513	10.28	4.69	15.86	16.70
Innherred^†	73,862	12.18	4.22	20.15	12.02
Northern Sweden	774,608	11.36	8.99	13.73	11.17
South London	327,384	10.69	7.15	14.23	11.48
L'Aquila	874,375	10.18	8.06	12.29	10.23
OXVASC	178,071	8.99	4.58	13.39	13.12
Erlangen	62,453	16.01	6.09	25.94	14.58
Northen Manhattan^†	321,739	23.00	17.76	28.24	23.03
Aosta 1997^†	66,698	16.49	6.75	26.24	16.38
Melbourne	84,888	20.03	10.51	29.55	19.25
Brazil	844,378	11.55	9.26	13.85	8.70

CI indicates confidence interval.
*Standardized to the 2000 European population.
^†Standardized only by sex.