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Stroke is a neurological disorder characterized by occlusion of blood vessels in the brain as a result of thrombi or emboli, which block laminar blood flow.Stroke is the third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer).For the realization of this research, a descriptive epidemiological method was applied, as well as a retrospective analysis of a total of 1132 patients with cerebral infarction from Strumica from the Statistics Department of the Center for Public Health at PHI General Hospital - Strumica. A comparison was made in terms of gender, age and age groups, morbidity rate. Мost of the patients were hospitalized in 2016 (21.4%), the majority of the respondents are aged 65-74 years (35.0%), while the men have the higher risk of developing the disease (57.6 %). The average age at hospitalization is 68 years, 66.8 for males and 69 for females. The average morbidity rate per 10,000 inhabitants in the Strumica region is 14.3, while in the whole country is 14.7.There is a continuous decrease in the number of hospitalized patients from 2016 to 2020, which in 2020 decreased by 50% compared to 2016.The incidence of stroke increases with age, reaching a peak in the seventh and eighth decades of life |
