Trends in Cancer Diagnoses among Inpatients Hospitalized with Stroke

Background: Cancer, by conferring a hypercoagulable state, may lead to an ischemic stroke. Relatively little is known about the prevalence and evolution of cancer among stroke patients over the last decade.Methods: We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify discharges with any International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, diagnosis code for cancer and ischemic stroke from 1997 to 2006. We then calculated age-adjusted yearly acute ischemic stroke hospitalization rates among adult populations with and without cancer.Results: Prevalence of cancer among hospitalized stroke patients increased from 1997 to 2006 (N = 31,075 [9.1% of all ischemic stroke hospitalizations] to 34,138 [10.6%], P 
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research