Trends in Cancer Diagnoses among Inpatients Hospitalized with Stroke

Background Cancer, by conferring a hypercoagulable state, may lead to an ischemic stroke. Relatively little is known about the prevalence and evolution of cancer among stroke patients over the last decade. Methods We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify discharges with any International...

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Published in:Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases 2013-10, Vol.22 (7), p.1146-1150
Main Authors: Sanossian, Nerses, MD, Djabiras, Christina, BS, Mack, William J., MD, Ovbiagele, Bruce, MD, MS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Brain Ischemia - epidemiology
Brain Ischemia - therapy
Cancer
Cardiovascular
Comorbidity
Female
Hospitalization - trends
Humans
Inpatients - statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Neoplasms - diagnosis
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Neurology
Prevalence
Registries
stroke
Stroke - epidemiology
Stroke - therapy
trends
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Background Cancer, by conferring a hypercoagulable state, may lead to an ischemic stroke. Relatively little is known about the prevalence and evolution of cancer among stroke patients over the last decade. Methods We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify discharges with any International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision , diagnosis code for cancer and ischemic stroke from 1997 to 2006. We then calculated age-adjusted yearly acute ischemic stroke hospitalization rates among adult populations with and without cancer. Results Prevalence of cancer among hospitalized stroke patients increased from 1997 to 2006 (N = 31,075 [9.1% of all ischemic stroke hospitalizations] to 34,138 [10.6%], P  
ISSN:1052-3057
1532-8511
DOI:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2012.11.016