Determining Stroke’s Rank as a Cause of Death Using Multicause Mortality Data

Posted by National Health Index Stroke News Friday, July 27th, 2012

Stroke.ahajournals.org: 7/19/12.

Stroke has fallen from the second to the fourth leading cause of death in the United States without large declines in stroke incidence or case fatality. We explored whether this decline may be attributable to changes in mortality attribution methodology. Read More