title: [Stroke incidence and casefatality rates in population of Krosno County].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  According to papers from the 1980s and late 1990s stroke incidence in Poland was similar to that in Western Europe, but mortality rates were much higher. Studies published recently suggested significant decline in case fatality rates due to stroke. All of this recent studies were based on big city populations. The aim of this study was to asses both incidence and case fatality rates in predominantly rural population of Krosno and surroundings.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study involved all the patients with first-ever and recurrent stroke hospitalized in Krosno District Hospital during one year (from 01.11.2003 to 31.10.2004). Incidence rates were standardized to European population. Case fatality rates were assessed on days 30, 90, 180 and at one year after stroke.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the time of a year 269 cases of stroke occurred in population of 157506. Incidence rate standardized for the European population was 150 per 100000 (226 in men, 125 in women). Ischaemic stroke was diagnosed in 216 (80.3%), intracerebral haemorrhage in 40 (14.9%) and subarachnoid haemorrhage in 13 (4.8%). The 30-day, 90-day, 180-day and one-year case fatality rates for all strokes were 21.2%, 30%, 34.6% and 39% respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stroke incidence rates in the predominantly rural population of Krosno were comparable to those observed in big Polish cities as well as in West European populations. Significant decrease of stroke mortality rates reported in recent studies conducted in Polish urban populations (Cracow, Zabrze and Warsaw) applies also to small towns and village communities.
authors.affiliation: Oddzial Neurologii, Wojewódzki Szpital Podkarpacki im. Jana, Pawła II w Krośnie. r_jucha@poczta.fm
authors.forename: Rafał
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jucha
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015984:Causality; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012008:Recurrence; D012424:Rural Population; D017678:Sex Distribution; D020521:Stroke / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology; D015996:Survival Rate; D055815:Young Adult