KORELASI RIWAYAT HIPERTENSI DAN DIABETES MELLITUS DENGAN KEJADIAN STROKE

Abstract

Stroke is the brain functional disorder in form of neurologic cell death because of blood flow disorder in one part of the brain. Some risk factors for the stroke are hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Hypertension can accelerate arterial blood vessel hardening and it causes fat destroying in the smooth muscle cells so that it accelerates atherosclerosis process. Diabetes mellitus that causes stroke is because of atherosclerosis process. The objective of this research was to find out the correlations of hypertension history and diabetes mellitus to stroke case in Bougainville ward of Dr. H. Abdul Moeloek public hospital . This was a quantitative research with cross sectional approach. Population was 180 stroke patients treated in the Bougainville ward. 125 respondents were taken by using random sampling. Data were analyzed by using chi square test. The results showed that there were correlations of hypertension history (p-value 0.002; OR 4.7) and diabetes mellitus (p-value 0.004; OR 3.4) to stroke cases in Bougainville ward of Dr. H. Abdul Moeloek public hospital. The researcher recommends respondents to improve awareness to the stroke risk factors by changing their life style factor, visiting clinic or hospital more frequently, and to provide information to other persons to prevent stroke.