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Pediatric Stroke in the United States and the Impact of Risk Factors

Warren Lo, MD

Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Warren.Lo{at}nationwidechildrens.org

Julie Stephens, MS

The Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Soledad Fernandez, PhD

The Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

One approach to studying pediatric stroke is to analyze a national database that contains data on a significant number of children. We examined an administrative dataset of hospital discharges from the United States, Kids' Inpatient Database 2003 (KID2003), for ICD-9 codes associated with hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke in children aged >30 days to 20 years. 3156 children were discharged with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke and 2022 with hemorrhagic stroke after statistical weighting. The odds for a male discharged with hemorrhagic stroke was 1.5 (CI: 1.35-1.68) and for ischemic stroke was 1.37 (CI: 1.24-1.51) compared with a female. The odds for males discharged with a stroke were greatest for ages 16 to 20 years and least for 4 years. This study confirms a male predominance for stroke. The odds for hospitalization with a stroke diagnosis are greatest in very young and older adolescent males. Hemorrhage is an important stroke subtype in children.

Key Words: stroke • risk factor • hemorrhagic • ischemic • gender • hospitalization

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 24, No. 2, 194-203 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0883073808322665
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