Abstract:
:Despite the great socioeconomic burden of stroke, there have been few reports of stroke statistics in Korea. In this scenario, the Epidemiologic Research Council of the Korean Stroke Society launched the "Stroke Statistics in Korea" project, aimed at writing a contemporary, comprehensive, and representative report on stroke epidemiology in Korea. This report contains general statistics of stroke, prevalence of behavioral and vascular risk factors, stroke characteristics, pre-hospital system of care, hospital management, quality of stroke care, and outcomes. In this report, we analyzed the most up-to-date and nationally representative databases, rather than performing a systematic review of existing evidence. In summary, one in 40 adults are patients with stroke and 232 subjects per 100,000 experience a stroke event every year. Among the 100 patients with stroke in 2014, 76 had ischemic stroke, 15 had intracerebral hemorrhage, and nine had subarachnoid hemorrhage. Stroke mortality is gradually declining, but it remains as high as 30 deaths per 100,000 individuals, with regional disparities. As for stroke risk factors, the prevalence of smoking is decreasing in men but not in women, and the prevalence of alcohol drinking is increasing in women but not in men. Population-attributable risk factors vary with age. Smoking plays a role in young-aged individuals, hypertension and diabetes in middle-aged individuals, and atrial fibrillation in the elderly. About four out of 10 hospitalized patients with stroke are visiting an emergency room within 3 hours of symptom onset, and only half use an ambulance. Regarding acute management, the proportion of patients with ischemic stroke receiving intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular treatment was 10.7% and 3.6%, respectively. Decompressive surgery was performed in 1.4% of patients with ischemic stroke and in 28.1% of those with intracerebral hemorrhage. The cumulative incidence of bleeding and fracture at 1 year after stroke was 8.9% and 4.7%, respectively. The direct costs of stroke were about ₩1.68 trillion (KRW), of which ₩1.11 trillion were for ischemic stroke and ₩540 billion for hemorrhagic stroke. The great burden of stroke in Korea can be reduced through more concentrated efforts to control major attributable risk factors for age and sex, reorganize emergency medical service systems to give patients with stroke more opportunities for reperfusion therapy, disseminate stroke unit care, and reduce regional disparities. We hope that this report can contribute to achieving these tasks.
journal_name
J Strokejournal_title
Journal of strokeauthors
Kim JY,Kang K,Kang J,Koo J,Kim DH,Kim BJ,Kim WJ,Kim EG,Kim JG,Kim JM,Kim JT,Kim C,Nah HW,Park KY,Park MS,Park JM,Park JH,Park TH,Park HK,Seo WK,Seo JH,Song TJ,Ahn SH,Oh MS,Oh HG,Yu S,Lee KJ,Lee KB,doi
10.5853/jos.2018.03125subject
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2019-01-01 00:00:00pages
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2287-6391issn
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jos.2018.03125journal_volume
21pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2015-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.5853/jos.2016.00171
更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.5853/jos.2014.16.1.8
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.5853/jos.2017.01466
更新日期:2018-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2019-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2016-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of stroke
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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