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Stroke is a rapidly developing clinical disturbance of focal or global cerebral function, lasting for more than 1 hour. It is an acute form of symptoms of brain function disorder, with no apparent cause other than vascular origin. It is the final phase of arterial disease, the main cause of disability, and the second leading cause of death. Today,...
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The paper presents data on mortality of stroke in contemporary world, and documented research and data relating to the region which is linked to the general hospital in Doboj (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina). In a study included all patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute stroke, both sexes and all ages. Registered epidemiological data were analyzed and compared with the results of other scientific research and epidemiological studies. Details are processed and the information relating to the outcome of the disease, complications from the point registered in the degree of disability of survivors after its acute phase. Statistical processing, analysis and commentary, registered epidemiologic data conducted research studies, were confirmed both hypotheses: the significant mortality of stroke in the territory of the General Hospital of Doboj, and the hypothesis of high-present disability in survivors.
Key words Stroke; Lethality; Complications and Disability after Stroke;
