The American Heart Association (AHA) recently released its 2010 statistics on stroke through its website. The Heart Disease & Stroke Statistics--2010 Update presents the most available data on stroke cases worldwide and also includes relevant information on the prevalence of the disease by age, gender, and ethnic background.
Worldwide, Russia leads with the most number of deaths due to stroke with 452.8 (per 100,000 population) for men and 257.0 (per 100,000 population) for women, both under the 35-74 year-old bracket. was at Russia and 29.3 for Switzerland. The other countries belonging to the top 5 are: Romania, China, Bulgaria, and Korea, respectively.
Stroke is the 2nd most common cause of death in Europe (1.24 million annual) and in the European Union (508,000 annual) and the 3rd cause of death in Canada (14,000 deaths) and the United States (4.3 per 100,00 population annually). Meanwhile, 1.8% of Asians aged 18 years and older have had a stroke.
On top of all these, stroke remains to be the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States--where someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds, on the average, and dies every 4 minutes. Stroke is one of the leading conditions that cause 45 million people in the United States with functional disabilities. Functional disabilities pertain to the difficulty in performing daily activities that involve vision, hearing, speech in one's work, job, business, or daily chores.
Statistics show that 50%-70% of stroke survivors regain functional independence and that of this range only 15%-30% are permanently disabled, while 20% require 3 months of institutional care.
A very interesting information about these recently-released statistics is that, in terms of gender, stroke appears to occur more in women than in men in the United States and Canada. There are about 55,000 more American women than men who suffer stroke each year. The prevalence of stroke in men is estimated at 2.5 million.
According to the Women and Cardiovascular Diseases--Statistics 2010 portion of the AHA report, this is due to the fact that the average life expectancy of American women is greater than for men. Statistics also show that women are more capable to survive than men as an estimated 3.9 million American women stroke survivors are still alive today.
Women also suffer greater disability than men as a Michigan-based stroke registry found that 33% of women had moderate to severe disability at discharge as compared to 27% of men. The study also showed that 34% of women were disabled at 6 months and had a 30% lower probability of achieving independence within the same time frame.
The AHA 2010 stroke statistics provides an update of stroke cases worldwide. Moreover, the information clearly shows that despite differences in age, gender, location, nationality, and ethnic background, no one is exempted from the perils of stroke.
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