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A review of existing literature indicates a high assumed burden of stroke in Pakistan driven by highly prevalent conventional risk factors, lack of awareness, and poor management practices.
This review highlights the significant but poorly quantified burden of stroke and its risk factors in Pakistan, emphasizing the need for better epidemiologic data and management strategies.
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May warrant heightened clinical focus on stroke prevention in Pakistan; leaves open precise burden quantification and optimal strategies pending better data.
Epidemiologic literature on stroke burden, patterns of stroke is almost non existent from Pakistan. However, several hospital-based case series on the subject are available, mainly published in local medical journals. Despite the fact that true stroke incidence and prevalence of stroke in Pakistan is not known, the burden is assumed to be high because of highly prevalent stroke risk factors (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, dyslipidemia and smoking) in the community. High burden of these conventional stroke risk factors is further compounded by lack of awareness, poor compliance hence poor control, and inappropriate management/treatment practices. In addition certain risk factors like rheumatic valvular heart disease may be more prevalent in Pakistan. We reviewed the existing literature on stroke risk factors in community, the risk factor prevalence among stroke patients, patterns of stroke, out come of stroke, availability of diagnostic services/facilities related to stroke and resources for stroke care in Pakistan.
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Khealani et al. (2008) conducted a review in Stroke. Stroke risk factors was evaluated. A review of existing literature indicates a high assumed burden of stroke in Pakistan driven by highly prevalent conventional risk factors, lack of awareness, and poor management practices.
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