Characteristics of Gender, Age, Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Stroke Hospitalization Cases Based on the Data of 190 000 Patients in Ningxia Region

• Published in: Zhongguo quanke yixue Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 915 - 920
• Main Author: ZHAO Yuan, LIU Shanghong, ZHANG Yanfang, MA Lixu, LI Hong, LI Xiaohua, TIAN Yuan, GUO Zhongqin, LIANG Peifeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Chinese General Practice Publishing House Co., Ltd 01.03.2024
• Subjects: stroke|inpatients|sex factors|age factors|dynamic queue|spatial auto-correlation|models, statistical|ningxia
• ISSN: 1007-9572
• DOI: 10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2023.0695

Background Stroke is an acute cerebrovascular disease in which blood fails to flow into the brain, resulting in damage to brain tissue, with high rates of disability, death, and recurrence, and most of the related studies in Ningxia region are clinical analyses of strokes, which lack trend analysis of stroke hospitalization in Ningxia in recent years. Objective To analyze the disease prevalence characteristics and distribution of stroke hospitalized patients in Ningxia, and provide a basis for the development of comprehensive prevention and treatment measures for stroke. Methods The case home page data of 55 hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine in Ningxia region were collected, and the data discharged from 2013 to 2019 with a primary diagnosis of stroke [International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -10 coded as I60-I63] were screened and analyzed. SPSS 24.0 software was applied to analyze the differences in gender and age using the chi-square test, and a geographic informatio