Stroke Statistics in Korea, 2018

Kim Jun Yup, Bae Hee-Joon
Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Park Jong-Moo
Department of Neurology, Nowon Eulji Medical Center

 
The Epidemiologic Research Council of the Korean Stroke Society developed the “Stroke Statistics in Korea” project, aimed to establish of a well-designed, comprehensive, comparable and focused national stroke epidemiology report. This statistical report contained general statistics of strokes, the prevalence of behavioral and vascular risk factors, stroke characteristics, pre-hospital systems of care, hospital management profiles, and quality of care and outcome. In summary, one in 40 adults are stroke patients and 232 subjects per 100,000 have a stroke every year. Of the 100 stroke patients in 2014, 76 had an ischemic stroke, 15 had an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and 9 had a  subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In Korea, the stroke mortality rate is gradually declining, but still has a high mortality rate of 30 per 100,000 people remains persistent, and there are regional disparities in mortality rates. Furthermore, the major risk factors for age groups are smoking and obesity in adolescence, hypertension and diabetes in middle age, and atrial fibrillation in elderly patients. The proportion of patients who were admitted to the hospital within 3 hours of the stroke was roughly 4 out of 10 (42%). Lastly, in 2015, the direct costs of strokes was 1.68 trillion won,  1.11 trillion won for ischemic strokes, and 540 billion won for hemorrhagic strokes.  

Keywords: stroke, statistics, epidemiology