Ryglewicz D
Klinika Chorób Naczyniowych Układu Nerwowego Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii, Warszawie.
Neurol Neurochir Pol. 1994;28(1 Suppl 1):35-49.
Poland is one of very few countries in the world in which stroke mortality rates have been rising at least since 1970s. This high level of stroke mortality could be due to either high incidence rates, or high case fatality rates, or both. Based on our previous two-year prospective study of patients with strokes in 1991-1992, stroke incidence rates in Poland were found to be comparable to other countries (incidence rate standardized for the European population was 149/100,000), however 30 day case fatality rates were almost two times higher (26.8% in ischaemic strokes, 61.1% in haemorrhagic). High case fatality rates, as opposed to incidence rates, probably explain high stroke mortality rates in Poland.
波兰是世界上极少数自20世纪70年代以来中风死亡率一直在上升的国家之一。如此高的中风死亡率可能是由于高发病率、高病死率，或两者兼而有之。根据我们在1991年至1992年对中风患者进行的为期两年的前瞻性研究，波兰的中风发病率与其他国家相当（欧洲人口标准化发病率为149/100,000），然而30天病死率几乎高出一倍（缺血性中风为26.8%，出血性中风为61.1%）。与发病率不同，高病死率可能是波兰中风死亡率高的原因。
