Al-Shenqiti Abdullah M, Ibrahim Sameh R, Khaled Osama A, Ali Abdul Rahman H, Ahmed Mostafa S
Faculty of Medical Rehabilitation Sciences, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia.
Eur Neurol. 2017;77(3-4):147-151. doi: 10.1159/000455094. Epub 2017 Jan 20.
Stroke is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. A number of studies were conducted in Saudi Arabia. However, there were no studies conducted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah city.
The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence rate of first time stroke and the age-specific incidence in both genders in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah city.
A prospective hospital based study was conducted over a 1-year period (2014). The cases were included in the study when they were admitted with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident.
A total 164 patients (91 men and 73 women) who had first time stroke were found in this study with no significant difference between them (p = 0.565). The crude incidence rate of stroke was 13.89 per 100,000 persons. The age-specific incidence rate increased with age in the current study, where the peak was in the age group of more than 75 years old for men and women.
Total crude and the age-specific rates for first time stroke patients revealed in this study were markedly lower than the range reported from the developed countries. However, they were within the range that showed previously in Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula countries.
中风是全球发病和死亡的主要原因之一。沙特阿拉伯开展了多项研究。然而，麦地那市尚未进行相关研究。
本研究旨在确定麦地那市首次中风的发病率以及不同性别的年龄别发病率。
在2014年进行了为期1年的前瞻性医院研究。当患者因脑血管意外入院时纳入研究。
本研究共发现164例首次中风患者（91名男性和73名女性），两者之间无显著差异（p = 0.565）。中风的粗发病率为每10万人13.89例。在本研究中，年龄别发病率随年龄增长而增加，男性和女性的发病率高峰均出现在75岁以上年龄组。
本研究中首次中风患者的总粗发病率和年龄别发病率明显低于发达国家报告的范围。然而，它们在沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯半岛国家之前显示的范围内。
