JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v4i4.2359 jpsim.v4i4.2359 Original Research Frequency of Stroke in Patients Presenting with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Rauf Sundus sundusrauf77@gmail.com * Mumtaz Sami Ullah Iqtadar Somia Niaz Zafar Masud Mohsin Haque Israr Ul North Medical Ward, King Edward Medical University, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan *Correspondence: Sundus Rauf (sundusrauf77@gmail.com) 29 11 2023 2023 4 4 293 296 23 07 2023 11 09 2023 Copyright © 2023 The Author(s) 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To determine the frequency of stroke in patients presenting with COPD.

 Methodology

This was a Cross sectional study conducted at North Medical Ward, Mayo Hospital, Lahore for Six months i.e. 28-7-2020 to 28-1-2021. Total 250 patients fulfilling the study criteria were enrolled. Then patients were evaluated by using spirometer and FEV1 and FVC were noted. Two groups were formed i.e. group I with COPD (FEV1/FVC

 Results

The mean age of the patients was 60.21±19.32 years. There were 188 (75.2%) males and 62 (24.8%) females in this study. There were 72 (28.8%) patients with COPD and 178 (71.2%) without COPD. In this study there were 44 (17.6%) patients who were having stroke and 206 (82.4%) had no stroke. There was significant association between Stroke and COPD (p-value:

 Conclusion

It was concluded that frequency of stroke among COPD patients was 36.1%. Age, Gender, BMI, Hypertension, Diabetes and smoking had a significant impact on stroke frequency among COPD patients. Keeping in mind these results stroke screening should be carried out periodically by the pulmonologist to reduce it risk.

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