[Epidemiology stroke in a large city in Western Siberia according to registry statistics (morbidity and mortality)].

A study of the cerebral stroke morbidity and mortality was first carried out using the method of registering cerebral stroke under specific conditions of such a large city of Western Siberia as Novosibirsk. The annual incidence of cerebral stroke constituted 3.37 and that of mortality 1.2 per 1000 population. The study was specific in that it took into account minor (reversible) episodes of cerebral stroke, whose annual incidence was 0.52 per 1000 population. The characteristics of the morbidity and mortality are described for different age groups with the varying nature of stroke. It was noted that the morbidity and mortality associated with cerebral infarction were higher as compared with cerebral hemorrhage.