Tissue-Based Stroke Definition Impacts Stroke Incidence but not Ethnic Differences

We explored how the new, tissue-based stroke definition impacted incidence estimates, including an ethnic comparison, in a population-based study.Stroke patients, May, 2014-May, 2016 in Nueces County, Texas were ascertained and validated using source documentation. Overall, ethnic-specific and age-specific Poisson regression models were used to compare first-ever ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) incidence between old and new...