Occlusive stroke in young population: a tertiary centre experience

Introduction: Stroke or cerebro-vascular accidents cause a considerable mortality and morbidity in the people of middle and past middle age in both developed as well as developing countries. The occlusive cerebrovascular disease in young could be due to premature atherosclerosis or hypercoagulable state. In young adults, role of lipids in causation of stroke had been suggested.
Material and methods: The present study was conducted at Government Medical College Jammu on patients of hemorrhagic stroke, Inclusion criteria were: Age 15 to 40 years, Both sexes including pregnant females were included in the study, Diagnosis of stroke was established when Patient had a focal/generalized neurological deficit lasting for 24hours and confirmed by physical finding and computed tomography to be of vascular origin.
Results: Among 18 patients of Occlusive stroke 8 patients i.e. 44-.44 % were male patients and 10 patients i.e. 55.55% were females, where as among the control groups 35 patients (70%) were male and fifteen (30%) were females. Our patients of Occlusive stroke belonged to the age group of 26 to 40 years. We found statistically significantly higher value of serum cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL- cholesterol in young patients with occlusive stroke. Regarding HDL cholesterol we observed a significantly lower value of HDL-cholesterol in our patients