1 Incidence of Aetiological Subtypes of Stroke in a Multi-Ethnic population based study: the South London Stroke Register Cother Hajat, PhD, MFPH 1 ; Peter U. Heuschmann, MD, MPH 1,2,4 ; Catherine Coshall, MSc 1 ; Soundrie Padayachee, MD 3 , John Chambers, MD 3 , Anthony G. Rudd, FRCP 3 ; Charles D.A. Wolfe, MD, FFPH 1,2 1 King’s College London, London, UK , Division of Health and Social Care Research; 2 Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, UK, NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre; 3 Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK 4 Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Word count: 3118 Number of tables: 4 Number of figures: 1 Key words: Stroke; incidence; aetiology; ethnicity peer-00588621, version 1 - 25 Apr 2011 Author manuscript, published in "J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82, 5 (2010) 527" DOI : 10.1136/jnnp.2010.222919