The Relationship between Stroke and the Amount of the Body Mass Index among the Patients Hospitalized in Hamadan Sina Hospital in 2000

• Main Authors: Ali Akbar Rezaie, Saeed Hatami
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Hamadan University of Medical Sciences 2002-06-01
• Series: پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا
• Subjects: cerebral ischemia / body mass index / brain hemorrhage
• Online Access: http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-753-en.html

Storke is a disabling neurological disorder and is the third cause of death    in the U.S. The various risk factors have been investigated for stroke; the    most important of which are age, sex, hypercholesterolemia, smoking,    alcoholic dirnks, records of cordiac diseases(specially a trial fibrilation),    taking oral contraceptives, takibg some kinds of drugs, etc. On obesity-    which measured against a criterion called Body Mass Index (BMI) and its    relevance to stroke, different kinds  of studies have been done, only to    reach no certain results. In this research, it has been attempted to evaluate    the effect of BMI in the two kinds of ischemic and hemorrahgic strokes,    regardless of any other risk factors.           This study was preformed on 200 individuals , of whom 80 were     selected from stroke patients hospitalized in the neurology ward of Sina    hospital of Hamadan  in 2000 and the other 120, the control group from    people with no records of stroke. Both groups were investigated in terms of    BMI and other risk factors, and then the results were compared with each    other , using t-student and mantel haenszel test.           The BMI mean in ischemic stroke and control groups was not    significant(p=0.69)and neither was the mean hemorrhagic and control    groups (p=0.83). comparing the odds ratio in ischemic stroke with the other    risk factors it was indicated that none of these risk factors had any adverse    effects as invalidator in this study.           It is concluded that there is no significant relationship between obesity    or BMI with any types of stroke(ischemic or hemorrhagic). Therefore more    efforts must be undertaken to prevent the other kinds of risk factors    mentioned.