Table 2.
Percentages or means for each of the baseline residence, health behavior, and disease stroke risk factors overall and by stroke classification.
| Risk Factors |
All Subjects N = 5511 |
Non-Stroke Subjects N = 4966 |
Stroke Sensitivity Cases N = 545 |
Stroke Specificity Cases N = 374 |
| Residence Characteristics | ||||
| Population over 1,000,000 | 47% | 47% | 46% | 51% |
| Region of the US | ||||
| Northeast | 22% | 23% | 21% | 24% |
| North Central | 27% | 26% | 29% | 28% |
| West | 18% | 19% | 14% | 13% |
| South (RG) | 33% | 32% | 36% | 35% |
| Type of Residence | ||||
| Multiple Story Home | 39% | 39% | 45% | 47% |
| Mobile Home | 6% | 7% | 6% | 5% |
| Single Story Non-mobile (RG) | 53% | 54% | 49% | 48% |
| Health Behaviors | ||||
| Body Mass | ||||
| Obese | 14% | 13% | 18% | 20% |
| Overweight | 36% | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Normal (RG) | 46% | 46% | 44% | 43% |
| Underweight | 4% | 4% | 4% | 2% |
| Smoking History | ||||
| Former Smoker | 42% | 42% | 40% | 40% |
| Current Smoker | 10% | 10% | 8% | 7% |
| Never Smoked (RG) | 48% | 48% | 52% | 53% |
| Drinking History | ||||
| 3 or more drinks/day | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% |
| 1 – 2 drinks/day | 9% | 9% | 8% | 9% |
| Less than 1 drink/day (RG) | 89% | 89% | 91% | 89% |
| Disease History | ||||
| Angina | 9% | 9% | 10% | 10% |
| Arthritis | 25% | 25% | 25% | 24% |
| Cancer | 13% | 13% | 11% | 13% |
| Diabetes | 12% | 12% | 19% | 21% |
| Heart Attack | 7% | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Heart Disease | 29% | 28% | 34% | 32% |
| Hip Fracture | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Hypertension | 46% | 45% | 53% | 55% |
| Lung Disease | 9% | 10% | 8% | 7% |
| Psych. Problems | 7% | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Stroke | 10% | 9% | 16% | 14% |
| 4 or more of the above conditions | 12% | 11% | 15% | 15% |
| Hospitalized in past year | 23% | 22% | 26% | 24% |
| Visited a Doctor in the past year | ||||
| 0 – 1 time (RG) | 23% | 23% | 20% | 20% |
| 2 – 3 times | 28% | 28% | 26% | 28% |
| 4 – 5 times | 20% | 20% | 21% | 18% |
| 6 or more times | 28% | 28% | 33% | 34% |