1. Pediatric Stroke in the United States and the Impact of Risk Factors.
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Lo, Warren, Stephens, Julie, and Fernandez, Soledad
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HEMORRHAGIC diseases in children , *BLOOD circulation disorders , *ISCHEMIA , *HEMORRHAGIC shock , *HEMORRHAGE , *INFANT diseases - Abstract
One approach to studying pediatric stroke is to analyze a national database that contains data on a significant number of children. We examined an administrative dataset of hospital discharges from the United States, Kids' Inpatient Database 2003 (KID2003), for ICD-9 codes associated with hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke in children aged >30 days to 20 years. 3156 children were discharged with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke and 2022 with hemorrhagic stroke after statistical weighting. The odds for a male discharged with hemorrhagic stroke was 1.5 (CI: 1.35-1.68) and for ischemic stroke was 1.37 (CI: 1.24-1.51) compared with a female. The odds for males discharged with a stroke were greatest for ages 16 to 20 years and least for 4 years. This study confirms a male predominance for stroke. The odds for hospitalization with a stroke diagnosis are greatest in very young and older adolescent males. Hemorrhage is an important stroke subtype in children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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