Key result
Hypertension emerges as the top modifiable stroke risk factor, present in ~55% of patients.
Why the study?
Strokes represent a major public health problem worldwide due to high morbidity and mortality, particularly in developing countries.
Observational (n=119)
No
Modifiable risk factors such as hypertension, obesity, and diabetes are highly prevalent in stroke patients, highlighting the need for risk factor control to reduce stroke incidence.
Supports prioritizing hypertension control in stroke prevention; leaves open age-specific etiologies for non-ischemic predominance.
Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)-strokes represent a major public health problem worldwide, due to the large number of people affected. Also, there is a large number of people who die from stroke, especially in developing countries. Our study included a group of 119 patients, diagnosed with stroke and admitted to the Emergency Hospital of Drobeta Turnul-Severin, Mehedinți county, between 2016-2020. The analysis of risk factors and associated comorbidities showed that stroke can affect both the elderly and young people, under 20 years old. However, approximately 4/5 of CVA patients (79.83%) were aged over 50 years old. If non-ischemic strokes predominated in patients under the age of 50, after this age there is a tendency to balance the incidence between the eight main forms of stroke. No significant differences were observed regarding the social environment of the patients, which shows that the risk factors are almost identical in both social environments. Among the modifiable risk factors, we highlighted: high blood pressure in 55.46% of cases, obesity in 19.33% of cases, atherosclerosis in 10.92% of cases, diabetes mellitus in 10.92%, kidney failure in 6.72% of cases. The data we obtained show that there are possibilities to reduce the incidence of stroke by controlling and reducing the modifiable risk factors.
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Păun et al. (2023) conducted an observational in Stroke (Cerebrovascular Accident) (n=119). Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors was evaluated on Prevalence of modifiable risk factors among stroke patients. In a retrospective analysis of 119 stroke patients, high blood pressure was the most common modifiable risk factor (present in 55.46% of cases), and non-ischemic strokes accounted for 67.23% of events.
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