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Med Int Mex 2012; 28 (4)

Cerebral vascular disease: incidence and risk factors in Hospital General La Perla

Ávila SMN, Ordoñez CAE, Ramírez FHJ

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 342-344
PDF size: 54.11 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Cerebral vascular disease (CVD) encompasses a set of clinical disorders due to the insufficient supply of blood to the brain. There are several risk factors which we can classify as modifiable and not modifiable. Representing as well one of the main problems of public health in all industrialized countries. In Mexico the EVC occupies 6th place as cause of death.
Objective: To determine the incidence and risk factors of CVD in patients in the service of medicine internal General Hospital the Pearl in January of 2009 to March 2011. To know the prevalence in terms of gender, age and risk factors associated with the type of CVD. In addition to establishing the percentage of deaths in the total population in study.
Methodology: It's a retrospective and observational study of revenues in the service of the institution to study internal medicine.
Results: A total of 147 records, leaving a total of 80 for the study inclusion criteria were reviewed.
Conclusions: the primary prevention of the CVD method is more secure and economical to improve the quality of life of our patients that due to its high incidence and prevalence represented a significant human and economic cost.


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