Mortality
Information on mortality from cerebrovascular disease and stroke is drawn from the database of death registrations maintained by National Records of Scotland (NRS, formerly the General Register Office for Scotland).
Key points:
- The age-standardised mortality rate (for under 75s) for Cerebrovascular Disease continues to fall, from 37.5 per 100,000 population in 1995 to 15.3 per 100,000 population in 2010, a reduction of 59.1%. The target to reduce the mortality rate by 50% between 1995 and 2010 has therefore been achieved (see Table MS2
). - The long term decline in death rates for all ages from CVD in Scotland has continued with an overall fall (standardised by age and sex) of 38% (from 82.0 deaths per 100,000 population for year ending 31 December 2001 to 50.6 deaths per 100,000 population for year ending 31 December 2010) (see Table MS1 ).
- The number of all ages stroke deaths has decreased by 33.5% between 2001 (3,929) and 2010 (2,613) (see Table MS1 ).
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| Table MS1 Number of cerebrovascular disease deaths, with crude and age-sex standardised mortality rates, by age, health board of residence and year of death registration, 2001-2010. |
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| Table MS2 Cerebrovascular disease mortality in under 75 year olds; progress against targets. |
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| Table MS4 Number of cerebrovascular disease deaths, with crude and age-sex standardised mortality rates, by age, council area of residence and year of death registration 2001-2010. |
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