Demographic Characteristics of Patients Presenting With Ischemic Stroke at Services Hospital Lahore.

Abstract

Objective: To determine the demographic characteristics of patients presenting with stroke.
Methods: Retrospective cross sectional survey was conducted using a 20 point stroke
questionnaire.
Results:132 patients were included in study. The mean age of patients presenting was
62.1±12.3 years. 66.67% patients were diabetic. Patients reached the hospital on average within
2 hours 18 minutes from symptom onset. Most patients had onset of symptoms at night time.
Motor symptoms were present in a vast majority of cases.
Conclusions: Patients were of a younger age than the worldwide average. Surprisingly our study showed diabetes to be more prevalent in the patients than hypertension. Most patients reached within the thrombolysis window. Attendants weren't aware that their patients had symptoms of stroke.