Status:
UNKNOWN
Matão Preventing Stroke (MaPS): a Stroke Register Study
Lead Sponsor:
Centro Neurológico de Pesquisa e Reabiitação, Brazil
Conditions:
Stroke
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
Stroke is one of the most important cause of mortality and disability in Brazil. The city of Matão, located in São Paulo state, with a population around 80.000 inhabitants, has conditions to develop a...
Detailed Description
Introduction Community-based stroke studies can answer important questions regarding incidence, case fatality, recurrence, disability, assessment of risk factors and quality of stroke services. Braz...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All suspected stroke patients living in Matão at an address belonging to the city were included, regardless of age. The stroke criteria were those defined by the Word Health Organization: "rapidly developing clinical symptoms and/or signs of focal and at time global loss of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin" 12 Although every stroke was recorded, only the first-ever-in-a-lifetime stroke was included in the analysis.
Exclusion
- Patients not living in Matão, who did not fulfill the clinical criteria for stroke, with CT or RMI scan findings incompatible with a clinical suspicion of stroke, and with clinical evidence of a previous stroke event.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2015
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
July 31 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
840 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03391102
Start Date
August 1 2015
End Date
July 31 2025
Last Update
January 5 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Hospital Carlos Fernando Malzoni
Matão, São Paulo, Brazil, 15990180