Gender Distribution of Risk Factors in Ischemic Stroke in Hospital of Psychiatry and Neurology from Brasov

Abstract

Some age-adjusted statistics consider that the distribution of risk factors for stroke differs between men and women. The aim of this study is to assess the gender distribution of risk factors among patients with acute IS. For this purpose we have conducted a retrospective study that included 437 patients with ischemic stroke (233 men and 204 women) admitted to the Hospital of Psychiatry and Neurology from Braşov from April 2013 to March 2014. Most of the demographic and clinical characteristics differed by sex. We found that women were more likely to have a history of atrial fibrillation, excess weight, or hypercholesterolemia, while men were more likely to have a history of hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism, and were more likely to drink and smoke.