Satia Waheed, Gauhar Mahmood Azeem, Awais Majeed, Ali Hassan, Nimrah Farooq, Ayesha Alam.
Demographic characteristics of patients presenting with ischemic stroke at services Hospital Lahore.
Esculapio J Services Inst Med Sci Jan ;15(2):131-3.

Objective: To determine the demographic characteristics of patients presenting with stroke Methods: Retrospective cross sectional survey was conducted using a 20 point stroke questionnaire. Results: 132 patients were included in study. The mean age of patients presenting was 62.1+-12.3 years. 66.67% patients were diabetic. Patients reached the hospital on average within 2 hours 18 minutes from symptom onset. Most patients had onset of symptoms at night time. Motor symptoms were present in a vast majority of cases. Conclusions: Patients were of a younger age than the worldwide average. Surprisingly our study showed diabetes to be more prevalent in the patients than hypertension. Most patients reached within the thrombolysis window. Attendants weren`t aware that their patients had symptoms of stroke.

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