A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Associations between Immigration Status and Stroke Incidence and Mortality

Table 3

Summary of results from studies that compared mortality of stroke among immigrants with that of the host population according to country of origin.

Host country	Western Europe, Australia, and North America	Eastern and Middle Europe	East and Southeast Asia	Western Asia/Arab countries	Latin America	Africa
Denmark	Western incl. EU 0.95 (0.35-2.54)	Former Yugoslavia (1.00; 0.73-1.36)	Thailand: NA	Afghanistan (0.46; 0.12-1.87); Iraq (0.88; 0.44–1.76); Turkey (1.60; 0.51–5.03)		Somalia (1.46; 0.47–4.56)
Sweden	Finland (≤10 years) (1.61; 1.37–1.90); Finland (≥11 years) (1.18; 1.02–1.36)
Northern Ireland	England (1.17; 0.93–1.48); Scotland (0.74; 0.46–1.17); Wales (2.71; 1.41–5.21); Republic of Ireland (0.79; 0.62–1.01)
The Netherlands	Western (1.09; 1.03 -1.17)		Other non-Western (1.50; 1.11-2.01)	Turkish (1.22; 0.85-1.76)	Surinamese (1.29; 1.05-1.57); Antillean/Aruba (1.17; 0.71-1.94)
Portugal						All Africans (1.79; 1.54–2.08); Cape Verde (2.65; 2.06–3.40); Angola (1.41; 1.10–1.81)
Canada		Caucasian ethnicity (0.89; 0.83–0.95)	Chinese (0.96; 0.79–1.15); South Asian (1.30; 1.05–1.61)