Frequency and Structure of Cerebral Strokes and Their Risk Factors: Measures for the Prevention of Recurrent Strokes at the Outpatient Stage

The frequency and structure of cerebral strokes among the population living in the service area of the city polyclinic were studied. The age-gender analysis showed the prevalence of elderly and old women who had suffered a cerebral stroke. Among the risk factors, the most important were: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiac arrhythmia. In most cases, cerebral stroke was of the ischemic type in the basin of the right middle cerebral artery.