Incidence of Stroke in Young Adults: A Review

Table 3

Proportion of different stroke types in the included studies.

	IS		ICH		SAH
Study	%	95%CI	%	95%CI	%	95%CI
Stockholm	21.0	18.1–24.0	22.0	19.0–25.0	55.4	51.8–59.0
Benghazi	77.9	67.7–88.2	12.6	4.4–20.8	9.6	2.3–16.8
Lund-Orup	67.5	48.1–87.0	16.7	1.2–32.2	15.8	0.6–31.0
Florence	38.5	24.5–52.4	21.5	9.7–33.2	36.2	22.5–49.9
OCSP	66.7	48.9–84.4	3.7	0–10.8	29.6	12.4–46.9
Baltimore whites	77.4	66.1–88.6	22.6	11.4–33.9	—	—
Baltimore blacks	70.2	60.5–80.0	29.8	20.0–39.5	—	—
Reggio Emilia	58.7	40.7–76.6	20.5	5.8–35.2	20.5	5.8–35.2
Malmö	53.3	28.1–78.6	20.0	0–40.2	13.3	0–30.5
Perth	47.5	32.0–63.0	20.0	7.6–32.4	32.5	18.0–47.0
Belluno	30.8	05.7–55.9	38.5	12.0–64.9	30.8	5.7–55.9
Innherred	55.6	23.1–88.0	33.3	2.5–64.1	11.1	0–31.6
L’Aquila	57.3	47.0–67.6	20.2	11.9–28.6	22.5	13.8–31.1
OXVASC	66.7	48.9–84.4	3.7	0–10.8	29.6	12.4–46.9
Erlangen	70.0	41.6–98.4	10.0	0–28.6	20.0	0–44.8
Northen Manhattan	43.5	32.2–54.8	30.4	20.0–40.9	26.1	16.1–36.1

CI indicates confidence interval.
IS indicates ischemic stroke; ICH indicates intracerebral hemorrhage; SAH indicates subarachnoid hemorrhage.