Epidemiology of stroke in India
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2017, Vol 115, Issue 12
Abstract
Stroke is the 2nd commonest cause of mortality worldwide with India currently entering into so called double burden of infection as well as cardiovascular disease a majority of which consist of strokes also called cerebrovascular accident. Even though India harbours around 1/6th of the world population, stroke epidemiology studies across the country are inadequate and mainly limited to major urban and few rural areas. The current article aims to make a review of the major work done in this field of stroke epidemiology and portray its current status across the country. For writing this review, papers were searched in the search engine PUBMED. ‘Stroke in India’, ‘Stroke epidemiology’, ‘Stroke burden’, ‘Stroke and India’, “ risk factors for stroke in India” etc were used as search terms. Stroke studied in various parts of India reflects an ongoing increase of its incidence. Few risk factors are common in all regions and also few others vary among different zones depending on the local social factors . Two most important risk factors are hypertension and smoking. Thus more stringent actions need to be taken for tackling this so called epidemic in this country
Authors and Affiliations
Apratim Chatterjee, Gautam Das, T N Kundu, Sibabrata Banerjee, Swati Kumar
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