Abstract

LOPEZ ACHIGAR, Elizabeth María et al. Evaluación de los factores de riesgo vasculares convencionales en pacientes con ataque cerebrovascular isquémico en un hospital de Uruguay. Acta bioquím. clín. latinoam. [online]. 2021, vol.55, n.4, pp.429-438. ISSN 0325-2957.

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in adults in the western world. Inorder to know the current status of conventional risk factors (CRF) for ischs emic stroke (IS) hypertension (HBP), dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, smoking, arrhythmias, history of stroke,age and sex- and to assess compliance with prevention measures, their distribution was analysed according toetiology and topography in a public hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay. One hundred fourteen IS patients aged 25-97 years were studied. A protocol was applied to collect variables related to the research using the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment and Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project criteria for etiological andtopographic classification, respectively. The presence of hypertension (HBP) and diabetes according to World Health Organization criteria, dyslipidemia according to the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel III, smoking having smoked at least one cigarette/day in the last trimester and arrhythmia according to the alterationof the heart rate were considered. An increased in the frequency of stroke with age, a higher proportionin men compared to the general population up to 64 years of age and relative etiological and topographic frequency like bibliography were obserbed. HBP was the most frequent CRF, both alone and in concomitance with others, followed by dyslipidemia and diabetes, these being higher to than previous national publications.The implication of CRFs in stroke and the inadequate prevention of modifiable risk factors were corroborated.

Keywords : Ischemic stroke; Risk factors; Prevention; Uruguay.

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