Years of optimum health lost due to complications after acute ischemic stroke: disability-adjusted life-years analysis.
Years of optimum health lost due to complications after acute ischemic stroke: disability-adjusted life-years analysis.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.109.576066
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发表时间:
2010-08
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Lee BC
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作者:
Hong KS;Saver JL;Kang DW;Bae HJ;Yu KH;Koo J;Han MK;Cho YJ;Park JM;Lee BC
Complications after stroke increase disability or death. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) metric, developed by the WHO to measure the global burden of disease, integrates both mortality and disability. Widely employed in population-level data analyses, it has not been applied to individual patient-level data captured in outcome registries. We analyzed patient-level data from the outcome registry of 1254 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients enrolled between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005 in South Korea. For each subject, we calculated DALY lost due to the qualifying stroke, and then analyzed additional DALY lost due to complications after stroke. For 1233 patients with available 3-month outcomes, the average DALY lost due to the index stroke was 3.82 (95% CI, 3.68 to 3.96). Any complications, neurological complications, and medical complications occurred in 34.0%, 20.8%, and 24.0%, respectively. The additional DALYs lost associated with any, neurological, and medical complications were 2.11 (95% CI, 1.78 to 2.44), 2.15 (95% CI, 1.72 to 2.59), and 1.99 (95% CI, 1.59 to 2.40), respectively. Patients with one complication had 1.52 (95% CI, 1.15 to 1.89) additional DALY lost, and those with 2 or more complications had 2.69 (95% CI, 2.18 to 3.20) additional DALY lost. Early poststroke complications deprive patients of about 2 years of optimum health. Greater numbers of complications is associated with greater loss of healthy life years. DALY analysis quantifies the burden of poststroke complications with a uniform metric potentially useful for health system planners.