RISK FACTORS TO STROKE USERS IN HOSPITAL GERAL PRADO VALADARES

• Main Authors: Carla Virginia Souza Santos, Débora Pereira Passos, Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres, Luana Araújo dos Reis, Claudio Henrique Meira Mascarenhas
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2011-06-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: risk factors; mortality; hospitalization
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/141/171
• ISSN: 1809-0761; 1809-0761

This study aimed to identify the main risk factors for stroke in users of the General Hospital Prado Valadares, in Jequié / BA. We performed a descriptive analysis of observational retrospective approach, in 327 records of patients suffering from stroke in hospitalized HGPV from March 2003 to December 2005, since data collection occurred late in the second half of 2006. Of the records analyzed, 50.7% corresponded to females, and 26.9% of patients died and most developed only a characteristic sign or symptom of stroke (57.8%). 64.2% had a history of only one modifiable risk factor, and high blood pressure as found in the records reviewed (79.8%). It was found in this study that most patients with stroke were female, the presence of only one symptom, and only one modifiable risk factor, hypertension being the most common risk factor. From this perspective there is the immediate need for wider dissemination in the society about the risk factors for this pathology, as a means of preventing their consequences on the individual and the high costs to staying in hospital bed.