Volume 5 ; Issue 1 ; in Month : Jan-Jun (2021) Article No : 131
Abdul Sattar J Yousif, Abdalfattah Ali, Alhasan M

Abstract

Patients with cerebrovascular accidents face a glooming outcome. Globally there have been some improvements in the management of such patients. Whether this is true to Iraqi patients (as a representative of lowincome countries) or not is a matter of debate. Our study tries to measure the overall incidence of mortality and prevalence of associated risk factors in this population to shed a light on possible efforts to improve the health care management. Method: this is a prospective single centre cross sectional study done in Al-Fayhaa teaching hospital from January 2019 to March 2020. Patients with an initial diagnosis of Cerebrovascular accidents were carefully collected and looked out for measuring in hospital mortality and any known associated risk factors identified from previous studies. Results: the sample was composed of 100 patients in the study period. Overall mortality was an alarming of 15%. On a multilogistic regression analysis, mortality was higher in patients who are older, with intracerebral haemorrhage and in patients with Ischemic heart disease.

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