Does stroke incidence and subtype distribution differ between Chinese and white populations?
Epidemiological evidence indicates a higher burden of overall stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese compared to white populations.
There is good evidence for a slightly higher overall stroke incidence and higher proportion of intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese vs white populations, but no clear evidence for different distributions of ischemic stroke subtypes. Studies using comparable, population-based case ascertainment and similar classification methods are needed to address this.
Tsai et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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