Table 1.

Disability weights for stroke at each disability level, South Africa

GBD 2010 stroke sequale	Definition of score	% of stroke population in SA (Hoffman et al. 2000 [26])	Disability weight associated with score (95% CI)
0	No symptoms	2	0
1	long-term consequences, mild	40	0.021 (0.011-0.037)
2	long-term consequences, moderate	23	0.076 (0.050-0.110)
3	long-term consequences, moderate plus cognition problems	12	0.312 (0.363-0.705)
4	long-term consequences, severe	15	0.539 (0.363-0.705)
5	long-term consequences, severe plus cognition problems	8	0.567 (0.394-0.738)

Weighted average disability weight across all disability levels: 0.18.