Frequency of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in stroke patients admitted at AlGamhouria teaching hospital in Aden Yemen

الملخص EN

Objectives : To assess the frequency of stroke in Aden in relation to sex, age and the occurrence of arterial hypertension and diabetes as risk factors.

Methods : We retrospectively studied 140 patients reported with acute first-ever stroke and admitted to our hospital in 2003.

The results are presented in the form of simple frequency tables and the data were analyzed by SPSS version 13, to find αҮƐ age means, t-test, and Chi-square test.

Significance level of < 0.05 was used.

Results : In 2003, there were 140 first onset strokes, of whom 81 were males, and 59 were females.

The mean age of the patients was 62.61 ± 13.28 years.

There was no significant difference between the groups (p >0.05).

Ischemic stroke was found in 67.1 % of the total patients, intracerebral hemorrhage in 30 % and subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2.9 %.

The differences are not statistically significant (p >0.05).

As risk factors, we found AHT alone in 62.7 % patients, DM alone in 23.7 % and both AHT + DM in 13.6 %.

Conclusions : The pattern of stroke in Aden is not different from that reported in other areas of Arab and Middle East countries and AHT is the leading modifiable risk factor.

Our study provides valuable leads to stroke epidemiology in Aden, and provides useful information for future studies.