The number of stroke-related deaths in Switzerland has halved over the past 20 years, according to a national study published to mark World Stroke Day, which takes place next month. Prevention and urgent care are bearing fruit. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Between 2004 and 2017, the mortality rate due to strokes fell from 77.5 to 38.5 per 100,000 inhabitants among women, and from 56.1 to 27.2 among men, the Swiss Heart Foundation revealed on Monday. The figures from the Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) related to 1.4 million hospital admissions. The case-fatality rate - the proportion of patients dying as a result of a stroke - has also halved, from 22.7% to 10.5%. The study was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. At the same time, the number of diagnoses almost doubled, from around 14,000 to more than 26,000 cases a year, an increase attributed to advances in screening and data collection. Despite this increase, stroke-related ...
