A comparison of epidemiology and high risk factors in patients with cerebral vascular diseases between Chinese and Japanese

Abstract

The prevalence, incidence and mortality of CVD in Chinese were lower than that in Japanese. In view of the relative ratio of occurrence within one year, it showed that ischemic stroke to hemorrhagic stroke was 46 : 51 in cities and 48.5 : 48.6 in rural areas. The results were thought to be poor control of hypertension. Hypertension are the high risk factor of either hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke. In view of geographical distribution, it tended to be higher prevalence of CVD in northern region than that in southern region in rural survey. In Chinese patietns with CVD, there was no difference between sexes. Incidence rate of CVD in cities was higher than that in rural areas. It showed higher incidence rate in young persons or in the prime of life. Alcohol drinking was regarded one of risk factors to CVD in rural areas. These are epidemiologic variations in patients with CVD between Chinese and Japanese. These variations might be largely explained with poor control of hypertension in Chinese and with differences in social environment and living condition. I would like to recognize that these are important problems to be studied in future. In overview of our data we can seen that there are similar fundamentally and nuance in CVD between Chinese and Japanese