Table 2 Proportion (%) of patients considering diseases/conditions to be or not to be stroke/TIA risk factors.
Condition/disease | Answers in the questionnaire n = 182 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Increases the risk | Reduces the risk | No influence on risk | Do not know | Missing answers | |
Stroke/TIA risk factors | |||||
Hypertension | 87.4 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 2.7 |
Hyperlipidemia | 87.4 | 0.5 | 4.4 | 7.1 | 0.5 |
Smoking | 87.4 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 8.8 | 0.5 |
Regular exercise1) | 0 | 80.8 | 9.9 | 7.1 | 2.2 |
Overweight | 77.5 | 0 | 3.3 | 15.9 | 3.3 |
Ischaemic heart disease | 70.9 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 25.8 | 1.6 |
Older age | 69.8 | 0.5 | 9.3 | 19.8 | 0.5 |
Excessive alcohol consumption | 69.2 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 22.0 | 2.2 |
Family history of cardiovascular disease | 64.3 | 0.5 | 6.6 | 26.9 | 1.6 |
Carotid stenosis | 63.2 | 0 | 2.7 | 33.5 | 0.5 |
Suffering previous stroke/TIA | 62.1 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 27.5 | 2.2 |
Atrial fibrillation | 49.5 | 0 | 5.5 | 42.9 | 2.2 |
Diabetes | 41,8 | 0.5 | 7.1 | 49. 5 | 1.1 |
Distractors | |||||
Osteoporosis | 2.7 | 0 | 28.0 | 67.6 | 1.6 |
Allergy | 3.3 | 0.5 | 21.4 | 73.6 | 1.1 |
Rheumatoid arthritis | 4.4 | 0 | 14.3 | 80.8 | 0.5 |
Thyroid disease | 6.0 | 0 | 12.6 | 79.7 | 1.6 |