Abstract

Introduction: Dissection of a cervical artery has been well described as a cause of ischemic stroke in the young. The role of dissection as a cause of stroke among older adults is less clear, but there are no obvious reasons why older patients would have less of a predisposition to dissection than younger patients. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that the incidence of dissection-related ischemic stroke would remain constant across age. Methods: We used inpatient discharge data included in the 2012-2015 releases of the National Inpatient Survey (NIS). We used previously validated ICD-9-CM codes to identify adults who were hospitalized with ischemic stroke and a concomitant diagnosis of either carotid- or vertebral-artery dissection. We compared the prevalence of concomitant dissection among stroke hospitalizations across patient subgroups defined by age. Survey weights provided by the NIS were used to calculate nationally representative estimates. Population estimates from the U.S. census were used to calculate the incidence of hospitalization with stroke and concomitant dissection per million person-years. Results: From 2012-2015, there were 17,325 hospitalizations with ischemic stroke and a concomitant dissection in the US. The prevalence of cervical-artery dissection among stroke hospitalizations was highest among those under 40 years of age and gradually decreased across increasing 10-year age intervals (Figure 1A). On the other hand, the overall incidence of hospitalization for stroke and concomitant dissection increased with increasing age (Figure 1B). Conclusions: In a nationally representative sample, we found that cervical-artery dissection accounts for a greater proportion of ischemic strokes among younger patients, but the absolute incidence of dissection-related stroke increases with age.

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