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What is Cerebrovascular Conditions?

What is Cerebrovascular Conditions?

• Cerebrovascular Conditions: Conditions of the brain's blood vessels including stroke.

Cerebrovascular Conditions: Introduction

Types of Cerebrovascular Conditions:

Types of Cerebrovascular Conditions:

• Stroke
• Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
• Cerebral Aneurysm
• Cerebral artery disease
• more types...»

Broader types of Cerebrovascular Conditions:

• Blood vessel conditions
• Brain conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Cerebrovascular Conditions?

Prevalance of Cerebrovascular Conditions: 30 per 1000 - NHIS95
Prevalance Rate of Cerebrovascular Conditions: approx 1 in 33 or 3.00% or 8.2 million people in USA [about data]

How serious is Cerebrovascular Conditions?

Complications of Cerebrovascular Conditions: see complications of Cerebrovascular Conditions
Average life years lost for Cerebrovascular Conditions: 10.0 years (SEER)¹; 11.0 in North Carolina².
Deaths for Cerebrovascular Conditions: 163,538 deaths in USA 2001 (CDC); 167,366 annual deaths (NVSR Sep 2001)

What causes Cerebrovascular Conditions?

Causes of Cerebrovascular Conditions: see causes of Cerebrovascular Conditions
Risk factors for Cerebrovascular Conditions: see risk factors for Cerebrovascular Conditions

What are the symptoms of Cerebrovascular Conditions?

Complications of Cerebrovascular Conditions: see complications of Cerebrovascular Conditions

Cerebrovascular Conditions: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Cerebrovascular Conditions.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Cerebrovascular Conditions.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Cerebrovascular Conditions: see treatments for Cerebrovascular Conditions
Research for Cerebrovascular Conditions: see research for Cerebrovascular Conditions

Society issues for Cerebrovascular Conditions

Hospitalizations for Cerebrovascular Conditions: 961,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Hospitalization statistics for Cerebrovascular Conditions: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Cerebrovascular Conditions:

• 250 per 100,000 rate for hospitalizations for Cerebrovascular Disease in Canada 1995 Surveillance on-line, 1998 LCDC, Health Canada)
• 1.29% (164,667) of hospital episodes were for cerebrovascular disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 62% of hospital consultations for cerebrovascular disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 47% of hospital episodes for cerebrovascular disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 53% of hospital episodes for cerebrovascular disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Physician office visits for Cerebrovascular Conditions: 2,409,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Organs Affected by Cerebrovascular Conditions:

Organs and body systems related to Cerebrovascular Conditions include:

• Brain
• Blood vessels

Name and Aliases of Cerebrovascular Conditions

Main name of condition: Cerebrovascular Conditions

Other names or spellings for Cerebrovascular Conditions:

Cerebrovascular diseases, Cerebrovascular disease, brain artery disease

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Cerebrovascular Conditions:

• Methylmalonic acidemia
• Transient ischemic attacks
• Frontal lobe
• Intracerebral haemorrhage
• Epidural hematoma
• Cns lymphoma
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Epidural abscess

Footnotes:
1. SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2000, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
2. Years of Potential Life Lost in North Carolina, NCMJ March/April 2002, Volume 63, Number 2

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