Profile of morbimortality by stroke in Brazil between 2015 and 2020

Abstract

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, including Brazil¹,2. It is a more common condition in the elderly, but it has an increasing prevalence in young adults due to the development of risk factors that were typically attributed to older ages3. Risk factors can be categorized into non-modifiable (race, ethnicity, gender and age) and modifiable (arterial hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus, smoking and alcoholism), both contributing to distinct trends in incidence and mortality from stroke4. There are two pathological subtypes of stroke, the hemorrhagic one that courses with intraparenchymal or subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the ischemic one that involves areas of cerebral, retinal and even spinal infarction5,6. Clinical syndromes and focal neurological deficits are determined by the affected vascular territory, a parameter that is also used to classify strokes, presume prognoses and determine more specific interventions

Ischemic Stroke of Cardioembolic Origin Systematic Review

“…We found that in Brazil the number of overweight patients with their fi rst stroke was greater than the number with normal BMI and stroke. Most of the former had less than eight years of schooling, belonged to social class C and were signifi cantly more physically inactive, often associated with obesity, which aff ects about 41 million people (25.9%) [48,49].…”