Stroke in Trinidad and Tobago: burden of illness and risk factors

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Deepak Mahabir, Lydia Bickram, Martin C. Gulliford
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 1998
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49891998001000002; https://doaj.org/article/410ae13fdea64479a05c2f6618c22f90

This study describes the burden of stroke on hospital services in a Caribbean community. The settings are the two main acute general hospitals in Trinidad observed over a 12-month period. All subjects were admitted with a clinical diagnosis of acute stroke. The measures were hospital admission rates...