Prevalence of Stroke in Pyongchang County.

Park, Jong Ku; Cho, Kyung Sook; Kim, Chun Bae; Kim, Jin Back; Song, Ha Ja; Park, Kee Ho; Ko, Seong Gyu

Original Article

Korean Journal of Epidemiology 2001;23(1): 69-79.

Prevalence of Stroke in Pyongchang County.

Jong Ku Park, Kyung Sook Cho, Chun Bae Kim, Jin Back Kim, Ha Ja Song, Kee Ho Park, Seong Gyu Ko

¹Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute ofOccupational Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College ofMedicine.
²Pyeongchang Health Center and County Hospital.
³Department of Circulatory Internal Medicine, Sang JiUniversity College of Oriental Medicine.

Abstract

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of stroke in Pyongchang county, Kangwon do.
METHODS:
The presumptive stroke patients of Pyongchang county were identified with a key-person method in October 2000. And then, medical records of these patients were reviewed by well-trained two students who major in the science of medical record.
RESULTS:
In the year 2000, there were 92 males and 68 females of self-diagnosed stroke. Of these, stroke patients based on physician's diagnosis were 102, and stroke patients based on CT/MRI findings or Minnesota criteria were 93. Prevalence rate of self-reported stroke, stroke based on physician's diagnosis, and stroke based on CT/MRI findings or Minnesota criteria were 0.33%, 0.29%, and 0.26% respectively.
CONCLUSION:
We conclude that verifying process of diagnosis is needed to estimate the prevalence of stroke in community.

Keywords: Prevalence; Stroke; Community; Minnesota criteria