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BackgroundAlthough ethnic or cultural differences affect prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, limited information is available about the age‐ and gender‐stratified prevalence of the risk factors in Asian stroke population.
Aims and hypothesisWe assessed gender‐ and age‐stratified prevalences of major risk factors in Korean stroke patients, and assumed that the gender differences are attenuated...
Although stroke is a world‐wide problem, the burden of stroke is particularly serious in Asia; its mortality is higher than in Europe or North America. The situation in Asia is dichotomized. Stroke mortality and case fatality has been declining in northern‐eastern countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and urbanized areas of China. This is attributed to both the risk factor control and stroke care...
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