Reducing the High Stroke Death Rate in Hawaii County

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• Reducing the High Stroke Death Rate in Hawaii
  County
• October 10, 2005
• Sharon H. Vitousek, M.D.
• North Hawaii Outcomes Project

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Driving Forces to Increase Screening for
Strokein Hawaii county

• Hawaii County stroke death rate is relatively
  high
• Geographic disparities
• Stroke deaths projected to increase
• Costly disability
• Prevention works

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State Ranking (1lowest death rate)
Cerebrovascular Death Rate Age-Adjusted - 2001

• 1 New York
• 2 New Jersey
• 3 Rohde Island
• 4 Florida
• 5 Arizona
• 6 Massachusetts
• 7 Delaware
• 8 New Mexico
• 9 Connecticut
• 10 Vermont
• 11 New Hampshire
• 12 South Dakota
• 13 Minnesota
• 14 Colorado
• 15 Maine
• 16 Nevada

• 17 Pennsylvania
• 18 Wyoming
• 19 Utah
• 20 Nebraska
• 21 Ohio
• 22 Alaska
• 23 Montana
• 24 Michigan
• 25 Illinois
• 26 Iowa
• 27 West Virginia
• 28 Maryland
• 29 Hawaii

Source Health Care State Rankings 2004
Chart North Hawaii Outcomes Project August
2005
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Projected Increase inUS Total Ischemic Stroke
Deaths Per Year
Source Elkins, JS, Thirty Year Projections for
Deaths for Ischemic Stroke in US,
(Stroke.2003342109-2113)
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Increasing Obesity(Body mass index gt 30)
Source HHIC from Department of Health -
Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System,
2000-2001 Department of Health - Hawaii Health
Survey, 1994-1999
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Increasing Diabetes Hospital Discharges/10,000
Population
Source Hawaii Health Information Corporation,
1995-2002
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Geographic Disparities in Stroke Death Rates
1991-1998 Age - Adjusted Average Annual
Source CDC Stroke Atlas of Stroke Mortality 2003
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Hawaii Ethnic Disparities in Stroke Death Rates
Source Hawaii Outcomes Institute/OHSM
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Geographic Disparities in Stroke Death Rates
Source National Stroke Association (NSA)
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• Source Stroke prevention April 95 P. B.
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Why is the stroke death rate in Hawaii County
high?What would help?

• Risk factors
• Individual nonmodifiable modifiable
• Environmental
• Access to Primary Care
• Quality of Care
• Pre-hospital
• Acute hospital
• Rehabilitation

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Modifiable Risk Factors- BRFSS 2001 (Hawaii
County v Hawaii State)

• HTN ever told by MD (24.1 v 24.8)
• HTN currently treated (30 v 25.2)
• Diabetes (6.3 v 5.2)
• High cholesterol (26.3 v 25.1)
• Obesity (15.2 v 15.7)
• Smoking (23.1 v 19.7)
• Alcohol (gt5drinks/day) (17.3 v 14.0)
• Physical inactivity (25.4 v 23.2)
• Atrial Fibrillation ??

Source North Hawaii Outcomes Project - BRFSS
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Income Disparities in US Counties Associated with
Higher Stroke Death Rates
Economic Measures Gap between haves
have nots Robin Hood Index (Gini coefficient)
Health Measures

• Overall mortality
• Stroke mortality
• Infant mortality

Source Leiyu Shi, Ichiro Kawachi, Ph.D. Income
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Population Health Measures

• Protective Factors
• Ratio of Primary Care Physicians

• Risk Factors
• Income Distribution
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Source Leiyu Shi, Ichiro Kawachi, Ph.D. Income
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Access to Physicians - 2003
Number licensed physicians per population State
2.8 per 1,000 people Hawaii County 2.1
per 1,000 people City County of Honolulu 3.1
per 1,000 people Maui County 2.1 per 1,000
people Kauai County 2.2 per 1,000 people
Source Numerator from Department of Commerce
and Consumer Affairs - 2005 Uniform Crime Report
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National Adherence to Quality Indicators,
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Source The New England Journal of Medicine, June
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National Adherence to Quality Indicators,
According to Condition
Source The New England Journal of Medicine, June
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Focus on Hypertension( High Blood Pressure)

• Hypertension is the most prevalent and
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Source Prevention of a First Stroke Philip B.
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Focus on Hypertension

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• The Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program
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  the risk for stroke by 36.

Source JAMA. 19992811112-1120
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Focus on Hypertension

• Less than 30 of those being treated
  (nationally) have blood pressure lower than
  140/90 mm Hg.
• Source JAMA. 19992811112-1120

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Evidence Stroke Can be Prevented

• Oxford Study
• The age specific incidence of major stroke in
  Oxfordshire has fallen by 40 over the past 20
  years in association with increased use of
  preventive treatment and major reductions in
  premorbid risk factors.

Source Lancet 2004 1925-33
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Franklin Cardiovascular Health Program

• Dr. Burgess Record, wanted to do more than help
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  grocery stores, businesses, and fairs to screen
  for problems and talk about prevention measures.
• Thus the Franklin Cardiovascular Health Program
  has served the region continuously for 29 years.
  The high blood pressure program was implemented
  in 1974 cholesterol was added in 1986, smoking
  in 1988, and Center for Heart Health in 1998.
• The mortality impact of this integrated community
  program has been reported in the American Journal
  of Preventive Medicine (Record, N.B. et al.
  American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  19(1)30-38, 2000) and Journal of the American
  College of Cardiology 40579-651, 2002).

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Driving Forces to Increase Screening for Stroke
in Hawaii County

• Hawaii County stroke death rate is relatively
  high
• Geographic disparities
• Projected to increase
• Costly Disability
• Prevention works

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Enabling Ring Concept for Stroke Belt
The US Department of Health and Human Services
Secretarys Stroke Belt Initiative
National (federal/ non-federal)
Enabling Activites
Enabling Activites
Priority Condition STROKE
COMMUNITY
Regional
HSA
Priority Risk Factor HYPERTENSION
Enabling Activites
Enabling Activites
Sub-regional/ state
public policy, ecological strategies, quality of
care, etc.
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North Hawaii Initiatives

• 2002 NHOP Noted Disparities in Stroke Death
  Rates
• 2003 NHOP Stroke leadership Think Tank
• Public education Chamber of Commerce
• AHA Community Screenings in North Hawaii
• Tutus House public education CVA, smoking ,
  walking, senior exercise classes
• 2004 NHCH Stroke clinical path link with
  Queens Medical Ctr.
• 2005 NHCH Heart Brain Center GWTG
• Participate with AHA DOH in State Stroke
  Strategic Plan
• AHA Training for Community Screenings
• 2006 Increase screenings detection and ideal
  management of HTN (High Blood Pressure)
• 2010 Decreased admissions deaths for stroke

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Acknowledgements

• The Earl Doris Bakken Foundation
• North Hawaii Outcomes Project, Consultant Andy
  Ten Have, M.D.,MPH
• Office of Health Status Monitoring, Alvin Onaka,
  Ph.D., Brian Horiuchi, MPH, Tina Salvail, M.S.
  and Ann Pobutsky
• Hawaii Outcomes Institute
• Hawaii Health Information Corporation
• National Stroke Association
• Health and Human Services, Larry Fields, M.D.
• North Hawaii Outcomes Project, Staff Makani
  Stevens, Lehua Ka'ae
• Presentation available at www.nhop.org/progress_st
  roke.php
• Contact info Sharon Vitousek [phone],
  vitousek_at_nhop.org