Cerebrovascular Disease or Stroke
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Number of noninstitutionalized adults who ever had a stroke: 6.2 million
- Percent of noninstitutionalized adults who ever had a stroke: 2.7%
Health care use
Ambulatory care
- Number of visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency department visits with stroke as primary diagnosis: 3.3 million (average annual, 2006-2007)
Source: Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2007: table 7 [PDF - 797 KB]
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges with cerebrovascular disease as first-listed diagnosis: 971,000
- Average length of stay: 5.3 days
Home health care
- Number of current patients with stroke as primary diagnosis: 44,800 (2007)
- Percent of current patients with stroke as primary diagnosis: 3.1% (2007)
Hospice care
- Number of hospice care discharges with stroke as primary diagnosis: 45,100 (2007)
- Percent of hospice care discharges with stroke as primary diagnosis: 4.3% (2007)
Mortality
- Number of deaths: 128,842
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 42.0
- Cause of death rank: 4
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 10 [PDF - 2.1 MB]
More data
- Average length of stay in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 106 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Death rates for cerebrovascular diseases by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age Health, United States, 2011, table 31 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharges in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 104 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharge rate in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 105 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Hospitalization for Stroke in U.S. Hospitals, 1989–2009
- Search Tables for Stroke in Health Data Interactive
- Years of potential life lost before age 75 for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2011, table 25 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
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