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In the ÑANDU study in Chile, 61.0% of patients with first-ever stroke had died or were disabled at 12 months, highlighting the urgent need for better stroke care and rehabilitation strategies in low-resource settings.
Highlights the disproportionate burden of stroke incidence, mortality, and disability in low- and middle-income countries compared to high-income countries.
Age-standardised stroke incidence and mortality are declining substantially in high-income countries. However, 70% of strokes and 87% of both stroke-related deaths and disability-adjusted life-years occur in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), in which people have proportionally more haemorrhagic strokes and on average die of stroke at a younger age.1 To allocate resources to deal with stroke burden in LMICs, appropriate knowledge of local stroke incidence, risk factors, and prevalence, as well as the strength of association between these factors, is needed.
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Laņas et al. (2021) conducted an editorial in Stroke (n=890). First-ever stroke was evaluated on Death or disability at 12 months. In the ÑANDU study in Chile, 61.0% of patients with first-ever stroke had died or were disabled at 12 months, highlighting the urgent need for better stroke care and rehabilitation strategies in low-resource settings.
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