Prevalence of stroke in patients aged 50-80 years attending emergency departments A single-center observational study.

Abstract

Introduction: Stroke is a neurological pathology that can be caused due to cerebral ischemia or intracerebral hemorrhage. Among the modifiable risk factors, we find hypertension, smoking, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and heart disease. On the other hand, the non-modifiable risk factors are sex and age.

Methodology: A descriptive, non-experimental, observational, cross-sectional, and retrospective prevalence study. It was based on clinical and sociodemographic data obtained from the AS-400 Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo system, filtered and tabulated in Microsoft Excel, for further IBM SPSS Statistics 26 analysis.

Results: 7,652 medical records were reviewed, 5,309 of which were deleted due to exclusion criteria, resulting in a population of 317 and a sample of 175 patients. The average age of patients with ACV was 65, with the 70-80 age range being the most frequent, with 41.7%. Males were the most prevalent, with 62.9%, and ischemic stroke was the most common in this period, with 64%.

Conclusions: The prevalence of ACV in patients aged 50 to 80 years old during the emergency of the HTMC during 2021-2022 was 317. There was an increasing trend of ACV as the patient’s age increased, the most common symptom being hemiparesis, hypertension was the leading risk factor, and ischemic ACV was the most frequent type.