Findings from a special stroke supplement to the 1977 National Health Interview Survey questionnaire are presented in this report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The supplement was developed in response to a request from officials at the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health. Their particular data needs centered around three major areas: (1) estimating the number of adults among the noninstitutionalized population who have survived a stroke, (2) gaining information on the relationship between selected chronic conditions and a history of stroke, and (3) describing the characteristics of persons who have had symptoms associated with stroke. This report addresses each of these objectives and presents related stroke data by three demographic variables-age, sex, and race. PMID: 10267139 ad068acc.pdf

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