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Dilip. M. Rampure, M.D; V.R.B. Kumar Surapureddy*, M.B.B.S; G. Rajasekharappa
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Department of General Medicine, Mamatha General Hospital, Giri Prasad Nagar,Khammam. 507001, India
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Department of General Medicine, Mamatha General Hospital, Giri Prasad Nagar, Khammam. 507001, India
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Article citation:
Rampure DM, Surapureddy VRB.K, Rajasekharappa G. A Comparative evaluation of stroke in diabetics and non diabetics. J Pharm Biomed Sci. 2014;04(10):894-897. Available at www.jpbms.info
ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of stroke is: “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 hours or longer or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin”. Diabetes is an independent risk factor for stroke. It is associated with a 2- to 3-fold increase in the risk of stroke. Our study aims to study and compare the incidence, clinical presentation and outcome of stroke in diabetics and non diabetics. It is a prospective case control observational study conducted over a period of six months. 80 patients with stroke were included in the study (40 diabetics and 40 non diabetics). The study population was selected randomly. We found that the mean age of incidence in Diabetic stroke patients was 55±9.93 and in Non-Diabetic stroke patients was 58.92±13.26. The mean blood sugar on admission in diabetic group was 214.85 ± 76.0 compared with 132.28 ± 42.37 in non-diabetic group. Hemorrhagic strokes were more frequent in the non diabetics and ischemic strokes in the diabetic stroke groups. Diabetic stroke patients had a longer duration of hospital stay with 7.82± 4.65 days as compared to non diabetics with 5.92±4.80 days. We conclude that Stroke in diabetes differs from that of stroke in non-diabetics with respect to age, stroke type, stroke severity and outcome. Hyperglycemia at stroke onset is associated with higher risk of poor outcome.
KEYWORDS: Diabetes; Stroke.
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The author(s) have no competing interests for financial support, publication of this research, patents and royalties through this collaborative research. All authors were equally involved in discussed research work. There is no financial conflict with the subject matter discussed in the manuscript.
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