Stroke Facts and Statistics
Online Resources
Interactive Maps
CDC's interactive maps present heart disease and stroke mortality rates,
county–by–county, for the state, racial/ethnic group, and gender of your
choice. Go to Interactive
Maps.CDCynergy Heart Disease
and Stroke Prevention Online Training Module
CDCynergy is an interactive training and decision-support tool.
It is designed to help CDC
staff and public health professionals systematically plan communication
programs within a health context. It allows users to assemble
the pieces of a health communication plan systematically by answering
questions in a specific sequence.
Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System
Estimates of the prevalence of self–reported risk factors for stroke by
state can be computed online from CDC's state–based
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System.
FASTATS
The National Center for Health Statistics provides CDC's statistics on a
number of health topics from its national databases. For stroke statistics,
see
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/stroke.htm.
Download Software from Epidemiologic Analysis
Epi Info is a public domain software system that puts computing power in the
hands of public health professionals. The programs make it easy to create a
database by designing a form or questionnaire, entering data in the database
and analyzing the results with appropriate epidemiologic statistics, tables,
maps and graphs. Go to Epi
Info.
Global Cardiovascular Infobase
An interactive Web site featuring epidemiologic profiles of cardiovascular
and cerebrovascular diseases in the world.
Go to the Infobase.*
*Links to non–Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed: March 28, 2008
Page last modified: March 28, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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