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Lifetime Cost of Stroke in the United States.  added 10/05/00

Stroke 1996 Sep;27(9):1459-66.  a review.

Lifetime cost includes

  direct  - hospital, drugs, nursing home

  indirect - lost salary, work around house, volunteer work,

Analyzed existing studies and 0.1% sample of the Medicare claims for stroke in 1990.

    which included approx 390,000 first strokes in 1990

For first ischemic stroke

Age  Lifetime Cost 

35     $380,000               

45     $362,000

55     $250,000

65     $ 95,000                   

75     $  55,000           

85     $  33,000

all age  $91,000

Survival from ischemic stroke

Age    1 year    4 year

<65       81%    70%

65-74    81%    59%

75-84    67%    42%

They note that increasing the survival time 'had little effect on the aggregate cost estimates.'