Socioeconomic status of very small areas and stroke incidence in the Netherlands

Objective: To examine whether characteristics of very small living areas can be used to predict disease incidence and to use these characteristics to assess socioeconomic differences in stroke incidence in the Netherlands. Design: Characteristics of postcode areas of stroke patients are compared with characteristics of postcode areas of all individual people in the study region, using Poisson regression analysis. Setting: Six provinces of the Netherlands, covering about half of the country. Patients: 760 patients who in 1991 or 1992 were consecutively admitted because of stroke to 23 Dutch hos... Mehr ...