Trends in Incidence, Lifetime Risk, Severity, and 30-Day Mortality of Stroke Over the Past 50 Years

Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke

1995 • 10,997 citations

Efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering treatment: prospective meta-analysis of data from 90 056 participants in 14 randomised trials of statins

2005 • 6,633 citations

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update

2006 • 3,513 citations

Randomised trial of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen among 6105 individuals with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack

2001 • 3,093 citations

Intra-arterial Prourokinase for Acute Ischemic Stroke

1999 • 3,037 citations

Prevention of disabling and fatal strokes by successful carotid endarterectomy in patients without recent neurological symptoms: randomised controlled trial

2004 • 2,472 citations

Epidemiological Approaches to Heart Disease: The Framingham Study

1951 • 2,066 citations

A Randomized Trial of Low-Dose Aspirin in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women

2005 • 1,949 citations

Probability of stroke: a risk profile from the Framingham Study.

1991 • 1,753 citations

European stroke prevention study 2: dipyridamole and acetylsalicylic acid in the secondary prevention of stroke.

1997 • 1,389 citations

Change in stroke incidence, mortality, case-fatality, severity, and risk factors in Oxfordshire, UK from 1981 to 2004 (Oxford Vascular Study)

2004 • 1,073 citations

Primary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke

2001 • 927 citations

The Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study

1998 • 746 citations

The influence of gender and age on disability following ischemic stroke: the Framingham study

2003 • 694 citations

The Lifetime Risk of Stroke

2006 • 680 citations

Stroke Incidence, Case Fatality, and Mortality in the WHO MONICA Project

1995 • 541 citations

International Trends in Mortality From Stroke, 1968 to 1994

2000 • 449 citations

Trends in the Incidence, Mortality, and Survival Rate of Cardiovascular Disease in a Japanese Community

2003 • 399 citations

Sex Differences in Stroke Care and Outcomes

2005 • 378 citations

Secular trends in stroke incidence and mortality. The Framingham Study.

1992 • 368 citations

Incidence rates of stroke in the eighties: the end of the decline in stroke?

1989 • 367 citations

The influence of age on stroke outcome. The Copenhagen Stroke Study.

1994 • 359 citations

Incidence of the Major Stroke Subtypes

2001 • 302 citations

Epidemiology of Stroke

2004 • 241 citations

Incidence, risk, and case fatality of first ever stroke in the elderly population. The Rotterdam Study

2003 • 238 citations

Stable Stroke Incidence Rates but Improved Case-Fatality in Dijon, France, From 1985 to 2004

2006 • 185 citations

High Stroke Incidence in the Prospective Community-Based L’Aquila Registry (1994–1998)

1997 • 174 citations

Computing estimates of incidence, including lifetime risk: Alzheimer's disease in the Framingham Study. The Practical Incidence Estimators (PIE) macro

2000 • 169 citations

Changes in stroke incidence and case-fatality in Auckland, New Zealand, 1981-91

1993 • 162 citations

Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study

2001 • 161 citations

Trends in Stroke Incidence in Auckland, New Zealand, During 1981 to 2003

2005 • 147 citations

Trends in Stroke Prevalence Between 1973 and 1991 in the US Population 25 to 74 Years of Age

2002 • 146 citations

Incidence and Prognosis of Stroke in the Belluno Province, Italy

1995 • 139 citations

Continuous 15-Year Decrease in Incidence and Mortality of Stroke in Finland

2004 • 132 citations

Trend of Stroke Hospitalization, United States, 1988–1997

2001 • 127 citations

Trends in the Incidence, Severity, and Short-Term Outcome of Stroke in Perth, Western Australia

1999 • 123 citations

Primary intracerebral hemorrhage

1984 • 121 citations

Decline in US Stroke Mortality

2001 • 121 citations

Stroke Units in Their Natural Habitat

1999 • 115 citations

ERMANCIA: Epidemiology of Stroke in Martinique, French West Indies

2001 • 111 citations

Stroke incidence rates were unchanged, while fatality rates declined, during 1971-1987 in Göteborg, Sweden.

1992 • 111 citations

Declining Incidence and Mortality Rates of Stroke in Finland From 1972 to 1991

1996 • 107 citations

Trends in Stroke Incidence and Acute Case Fatality in a Japanese Rural Area

2000 • 106 citations

Stable Stroke Occurrence Despite Incidence Reduction in an Aging Population

1999 • 102 citations

Decreasing incidence of lacunar vs other types of cerebral infarction in a Japanese population

2006 • 89 citations

Slowdown in the decline of stroke mortality in the United States, 1978-1986.

1990 • 83 citations

Stroke In China, 1986 Through 1990

1995 • 80 citations

Increased Stroke Incidence in Lund-Orup, Sweden, Between 1983 to 1985 and 1993 to 1995

2000 • 77 citations

Increasing Stroke Incidence and Decreasing Case Fatality, 1989–1998

2003 • 70 citations

Low dose aspirin lowered stroke risk but not risks of MI or cardiovascular deaths in women Ridker PM, Cook NR, Lee IM, et al. A randomized trial of low-dose aspirin in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. N Engl J Med 2005;352:1293-304. Clinical impact ratings GP/FP/Primary care wwwwwwq IM/Ambulatory care wwwwwqq Neurology wwwwwwq

2005 • 65 citations

Stroke trends in Rochester, Minnesota, during 1945 to 1984

1993 • 55 citations

Stroke Rates During the 1980s

1997 • 44 citations

Trends in stroke incidence and mortality in Hawaiian Japanese men.

1994 • 43 citations

Community-Based Stroke Incidence Trends From the 1970s Through the 1980s in East Germany

1995 • 40 citations

Trends in Validated Cases of Fatal and Nonfatal Stroke, Stroke Classification, and Risk Factors in Southeastern New England, 1980 to 1991

2000 • 37 citations

Secular trends in stroke in the Framingham study

1993 • 34 citations

Stroke in Lund-Orup, Sweden

2002 • 21 citations

Clinical epidemiology of stroke

2001 • 13 citations