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A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY ON THE RISK FACTORS OF STROKE

Dr. Alam Zeb, Dr. Muhammad Riaz, Dr. Zara Babar

Objective: This is a hospital case control study and the aim of this research is to how stroke increase the ratio of ephemerality all over the world, Stroke consider 3rd primary cause of human death. The main objective of our research study was to control the frequency and 1st attack of stroke in our patients. Patients and Methods: All the participant of this research study were from both sex under the age of twenty to seventy-year-old and all these patient was admitted in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, with first stroke verified by CT scan brain during a period of one year. Results: our research demonstrates that 71% had psychological infection and 29.9% psychological hemorrhage. The average age at demonstration was sixty two years and the ratio between lady to gender was 1:5.The main causes of stroke was 65.8% is hypertension, 43% is smoking and 41.3% is diabetes mellitus also 29.1% is underlying cardiac diseases our observation also on the patient family twenty six point seven percent are those patient whose relatives was suffer from ischemic attack and 25% are those whose family had high cholesterol, 24.9% patient was suffer from short term ischemic attack in past and in 18.18% patients was extra cranial carotid atherosclerosis. The ratio of death was increase up to 11.7% in hospital in thirty days 22.27% of all stroke survivors were functionally independent. According to our study survey the ratio of diabetes mellitus was more and underlying cardiac diseases less as compared to the western. Cerebral hemorrhage was relatively more common and the mean age at presentation was lesser compared to those in the developed countries.Conclusion: Those patients whose suffer from Stroke such patient consume their body strength and body part did not work properly so accurate information about the incidence, risk factors, to prevent community from initial and secondary stroke follow medicoconvivial role for patient’s services, Key Words: Stroke, Risk factors, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction.

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