Sarfo et al. conducted a prospective study to evaluate the risk of hypertension and
diabetes for incident stroke [
[1]
]. The authors recognized 54 events of stroke, and incidence rates (95% confidence
intervals [CIs]) of stroke per 1000 person-years in patients with diabetes and hypertension,
only hypertension and only diabetes were 16.64 (10.58–25.00), 13.77 (9.33–19.64) and
9.81 (3.59–21.74), respectively. In addition, adjusted hazard ratios (95% CI) of previous
cigarette smoking and physical inactivity for incident stroke were 2.59 (1.18–5.67)
and 1.81 (1.06–3.10). I have some concerns about this study.Keywords
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Published online: December 12, 2018
Accepted:
December 12,
2018
Received:
October 31,
2018
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