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Self-rated health status and risk of incident stroke in 0.5 million Chinese adults: The China Kadoorie Biobank Study

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Background and purpose

Self-rated health (SRH) is a consistent and strong predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in various populations. However, the associations between SRH measures and risk of first-ever or recurrent stroke were rarely explored. We thus aim to prospectively investigate the associations between SRH measures and risk of total and subtypes of stroke in Chinese population.

Methods

A total of 494,113 participants from the China Kadoorie Biobank without prior heart diseases or cancer (486,541 without stroke and 7,572 with stroke) were followed from baseline (2004 to 2008) until December 31, 2013. General and age-comparative SRH were obtained from baseline questionnaires. First-ever stroke or recurrent events were ascertained through linkage to disease registry system and health insurance data.

Results

We identified 27,662 first-ever stroke and 2,909 recurrent events during an average of 7.0 years of follow-up. Compared with excellent general SRH, the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for first-ever stroke associated with good, fair, and poor general SRH were 1.04 (1.00 to 1.08), 1.19 (1.15 to 1.23), and 1.49 (1.42 to 1.56) in the multivariate model, respectively. Compared with better age-comparative SRH, the HRs (95% CIs) of same and worse age-comparative SRH were 1.13 (1.10 to 1.17) and 1.51 (1.45 to 1.58), respectively. The relations of SRH measures with ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and recurrent stroke were similar to that with total first-ever stroke. However, the magnitude of associations was much stronger for fatal stroke than for non-fatal stroke.

Conclusions

This large-scale prospective cohort suggests that self-perceived health status is associated with incident stroke, regardless of stroke subtype.

Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.5853/jos.2017.01732

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Publisher:
Korean Stroke Society
Journal:
Journal of Stroke More from this journal
Volume:
20
Issue:
2
Pages:
247-257
Publication date:
2018-05-31
Acceptance date:
2018-03-18
DOI:
EISSN:
2287-6405
ISSN:
2287-6391
Pmid:
29886721


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
pubs:856988
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uuid:ec37bb78-a9ea-4fa7-b4d4-6c8691aa5d4a
Local pid:
pubs:856988
Source identifiers:
856988
Deposit date:
2018-10-11

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