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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2015. Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. Cat. no. CVD 73. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. AIHW, 2015.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. Canberra: AIHW; 2015.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2015, Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia, AIHW, Canberra.
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This fact sheet presents the prevalence of stroke in Western Australia in 2010—that is, the number of people who had at least 1 hospital admission for stroke in the previous 10 years and were still alive on 30 June 2010.
Over half (55%) of strokes occurred in males
For those aged 85 and over more women than men had experienced a stroke, reflecting the longer life span of women
Two in three strokes occurred in those aged 65 and over, nearly half were in those aged 75 and over
Only 17% of stroke cases occurred in those aged under 55 years
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