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Cerebrovascular Risk Factors And Stroke Subtypes In Different Age Groups: A Hospital-Based Study, Göksel Somay, Pinar Topaloğlu, Hakan Somay, Özlem Araal, Güli̇stan Uşak Halaç, Murat Bulkan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

We prospectively studied the characteristics of 401 patients with first-ever-in-a lifetime stroke who have been admitted consecutively into stroke care unit. During the evaluation of distribution according to age, patients were divided into 7 age groups with 10-year intervals. It was determined that ischemic stroke was mostly seen in the age group 71-80 (32.2%) and the age group 61-70(28.2%). The major risk factor of ischemic stroke was hypertension, followed by diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, smoking and hypercholesterolemia. The three most frequent etiologic categories were small-vessel disease, atherosclerotic large vessel disease and cardioembolism. The anatomical distribution of ischemic stroke were …