Similar to our findings, results from the NASBOD study 11 in Iran, showed an increasing trend in absolute number of strokes and their related deaths and a decreasing pattern in stroke ASDR between 1990 and 2015.
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There was a decreasing trend of the incidence rate of stroke in all provinces in females and males, except for one province (Ilam), with an increase of 0.4% (−6.2 to 8.0) ( Supplementary Table 2 ).