Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study prevalence of brain stroke, major risk factors, clinical pattern, and outcome among Yemeni patients.
A prospective hospital-based study was conducted of 110patients admitted in AL-Gamhouria Teaching Hospital in Aden in the period from January 2016 to the end of August 2016, all cases admitted with stroke were diagnosed by history and clinical examination and were then confirmed by investigations including CT scan as included in the study.
The most common stroke pattern was ischemic (80%), hemorrhagic (20 %), and the most common sex in this study was males (52%), while females (48 %).
The major associated medical conditions were hypertension (41%) cardiac disease (5%) and diabetes mellitus (18 %) smoking history was positive in (11%). The most common neurologic deficits in our study patients were Hemiparesis/hemiplegia (90 %).
Patients died during the same hospitalization were (21%), while (79%) remained alive.