Over 100 articles related to stroke were found in a search
through a database dedicated to indexing all literature with
original data involving the Malaysian population between
years 2000 and 2014. Stroke is emerging as a major public
health problem. The development of the National Stroke
Registry in the year 2009 aims to coordinate and improve
stroke care, as well as to generate more data on various
aspects of stroke in the country. Studies on predictors of
survival after strokes have shown potential to improve the
overall management of stroke, both during acute event and
long term care. Stroke units were shown to be effective
locally in stroke outcomes and prevention of stroke-related
complications. The limited data looking at direct cost of
stroke management suggests that the health economic
burden in stroke management may be even higher.
Innovative rehabilitation programmes including braincomputer
interface technology were studied with
encouraging results. Studies in traditional complementary
medicine for strokes such as acupuncture, Urut Melayu and
herbal medicine were still limited.