...Conrad Drescher; Fredrik Buchwald; Teresa Ullberg; Mats Pihlsgård; Bo Norrving; Jesper Petersson Introduction: Although ischemic stroke incidence has decreased in Sweden over the past decade, trends in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) incidence are less well delineated. In this time...

.... The aim of our study was to investigate trends in incidence, risk factors, and medication in patients with first-ever and recurrent ischemic stroke between 2010 and 2019 in Sweden. Methods: We included patients (≥18 years old) with ischemic stroke registered in the hospital-based Swedish Stroke Register...

... Sweden. Methods: First-ever stroke cases in the local catchment area of Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, between March, 2015 and February, 2016, were included from several sources, including 2 prospective hospital-based registers, retrospective screening of primary care visits, and autopsy...

... completed for, the EnvIMS study; (iii) become aware of this data source that is available for use by the research community. Methods: EnvIMS is a multinational case-control study, enrolling 2,800 cases with MS and 5,012 population-based controls in Canada, Italy, Norway, Serbia and Sweden. The study...

... by season in Sweden has been found. This study explores the weekly, monthly and seasonal variations in incidence and 28-day case fatality of stroke. Methods: A total of 7,129 patients with first-ever stroke during the period 1989–1999 were retrieved from the Stroke Register of Malmö, Sweden. χ 2 test...

...B. Kalb; G. Matell; R. Pirskanen; M. Lambe A regional database of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients was used to estimate the prevalence and selected characteristics of the disease in the county of Stockholm, Sweden. The prevalence of MG was 14.1/100,000 (17.1 for women and 10.8 for men). The mean age...

...Anne-Marie Landtblom; Trond Riise; Alexei Boiko; Birgitta Söderfeldt Previous studies have shown the Fennoscandian region to be a high-risk area for multiple sclerosis (MS). In order to investigate the distribution of MS in Sweden, mortality (1952–1992) and disability pensioning statistics (1971...