Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia

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Release Date: 29 Sep 2015

Author: AIHW

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. CVD 73. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. AIHW, 2015.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cardiovascular disease fact sheet: prevalence of stroke in Western Australia. Canberra: AIHW; 2015.

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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.

ISBN: 978-1-74249-828-7
Cat. no: CVD 73
Pages: 2

Findings from this report:

Two in three strokes occurred in those aged 65 and over, nearly half were in those aged 75 and over
For those aged 85 and over more women than men had experienced a stroke, reflecting the longer life span of women
Only 17% of stroke cases occurred in those aged under 55 years
Over half (55%) of strokes occurred in males

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