MORBIDITY BY STROKE AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN THE PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN ROMANIA
Abstract:
According to WHO, cardiovascular diseases produce more than half of the total deaths in the European region of WHO, 46 times more deaths and a burden of disease 11 times higher than that provoked by tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. In Romania, cardiovascular diseases also represent also the main cause of death, being responsible for 62% of the total number of deaths. The study done on a number of 5 137 237 patients admitted to hospitals in Romania in 2008, in order to find out which was the pattern of using hospital services by the patients admitted with stroke, has shown that out of a number of 64 465 cases of stroke, 54% were without severe or catastrophic complications, 30% had severe complications, 11% had catastrophic complications and 5% died or were transferred before totalizing 5 days of hospitalization. The most frequent risk factors associated with stroke that were found as secondary diagnosis in the patients with stroke, were hypertension in 49% of the cases, dyslipidemia in 21% of the cases, atrial fibrillation in 13% of the cases and obesity in 5% of the cases.
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