Are there gender differences in stroke incidence, lifetime risk, and poststroke disability?
Women experience poorer poststroke outcomes and higher institutionalization rates, which may be influenced by prestroke disability and sociodemographic factors.
These results from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) support the existence of gender-differences in stroke incidence, lifetime risk (LTR) of stroke, age at first stroke, poststroke disability, and institutionalization rates. Prestroke disability and sociodemographic factors may contribute to the high rate of institutionalization and poorer outcome observed in women.
Petrea et al. (Wed,) studied this question.