%0 Journal Article
%T Is Prevalence of Hypertension Increasing in First-Ever Stroke Patients?: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
%A Abhishek Pathak
%A Arun Kumar Yadav
%A Awadh Kishor Pandit
%A Kamalesh Chakravarty
%A Kameshwar Prasad
%A Pradeep Kumar
%A Shubham Misra
%J Archive of "Annals of Neurosciences".
%D 2018
%R 10.1159/000487066
%X Stroke is a devastating and disabling cerebrovascular disease with some amount of residual deficit leading to economic loss. Recent Indian studies have shown a stroke prevalence rate of 471.58/100,000 populations. Hypertension has been known to be the main risk factor for causing stroke
%K Hypertension
%K Stroke
%K Cardiovascular disease
%K Cerebral infarction
%K Risk factor
%K Registries
%K Stroke epidemiology
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470354/