Strokes: Children
(asked on 25th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children experienced a stroke in England in the past year.
Information on the number of children who experienced a stroke is not collected centrally. Information is collected on the number of finished admissions of young people with a primary diagnosis of stoke or mini stroke. This is given in the following table.
Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of 'stroke' and 'mini stroke' for under 18's by age groups at England level for 2014-15
Stroke (FAEs) | |||||
Age | I60.- Subarachnoid haemorrhage | I61.- Intracerebral haemorrhage | I62.- Other non-traumatic intracranial haemorrhage | I63.- Cerebral infarction | I64.X Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction |
Under 1 | 2 | 16 | 63 | 28 | 3 |
1 - 4 | 2 | 17 | 25 | 61 | 4 |
5 - 9 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 31 | 2 |
10 - 14 | 11 | 35 | 20 | 27 | 2 |
15 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 0 |
16 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Mini-stroke | |
Age | G45.8 Other transient cerebral ischaemic attacks and related syndromes | G45.9 Transient cerebral ischaemic attack, unspecified |
Under 1 | 0 | 0 |
1-4 | 0 | 3 |
5-9 | 1 | 14 |
10-14 | 0 | 11 |
15 | 0 | 0 |
16 | 0 | 1 |
17 | 0 | 3 |
Notes: An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.