Etiologic Pattern of Stroke in Young Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Strokes in young is important for a society, for anation where most of the risk factors are avoidable andmodifiable.Objective: In this study our main goal is to identify the etiologyof stroke in young age.Method: This cross sectional type of descriptive studywasconducted among the patients reporting to our patientsdepartment and patients admitted into Neuromedicine andMedicine Units of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital from 2012January 1 to 2013 December 31. During the study data wascollected by face to face interview, physical examination andinvestigations in a data collection sheet also evaluated andanalyzed by SPSS.Results: The experiment wheremost of the stroke patientswere female gender and hypertension was most common riskfactor 76%. Also contraceptive user female with strokes where32.1% were haemorrhagic and 36.8% were ischemic.Conclusion: After much analysis we can conclude thatrheumatic heart diseases were important factors for femalestrokes and hypertension were for both male and femalestrokes. Further community based large sample studies arerequired to have better outcome.