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. 2015 May;37(5):378-80.
doi: 10.1179/1743132815Y.0000000025. Epub 2015 Mar 28.

Primary stroke prevention in China - a new approach

Valery L Feigin, Wenzhi Wang, Hua Fu, Liping Liu, Rita Krishnamurthi, Rohit Bhattacharjee, Priya Parmar, Tasleem Hussein, Suzanne Barker-Collo

Primary stroke prevention in China - a new approach

Valery L Feigin et al. Neurol Res. 2015 May.

Abstract

The growing burden of stroke in China, along with the increasing cost of health care calls for new, more effective strategies for stroke prevention. These strategies should include increasing awareness of stroke symptoms, awareness of risk factors, and provision of easily available information on means of modifying risk factors. The Stroke Riskometer App is exactly such a tool, available in Mandarin, for adult individuals to calculate their risk of stroke over the next 5 and 10 years, and to identify their individual stroke risk factors and linking them to possible means of modifying these risk factors. The use of this App could reduce the risk of stroke for individuals in the Chinese population and contribute to significant reduction in stroke burden in China.

Keywords: China; Stroke Riskometer App,; prevention,; stroke,.

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Trends in stroke burden in China in 1990–2010: GBD 2010 Study.
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Stroke Riskometer AppTM
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