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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1359-1360
© International Epidemiological Association 2001
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Commentary: Estimation of the incidence of stroke using a capture-recapture model including covariates
Stroke Team, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead NE9 6SX, UK.
Despite the often dramatic onset and devastating consequences of stroke disease, incidence rates are notoriously difficult to estimate, and for a long time epidemiologists had to rely mainly on mortality data. The first serious attempt to compare stroke incidence in different populations, using standardized clinical definitions, was carried out in the 1970s by the World Health Organization.1 These studies indicated a seven-fold variation in incidence and a two-fold variation in case fatality, but left considerable uncertainty about how
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