[Epidemiology and climate and geographic risk factors of stroke in the South Kazakhstan region].

Stroke is a most frequent life threatening neurological disease and one of the most important causes of disability in Kazakhstan as well as in the whole world. Among CIS, the Kazakh Republic holds the second place after Moldova in mortality from cardiovascular diseases. Some researchers assume that official statistical data do not reflect completely the state of the problem in Kazakhstan due to the lack of representative population epidemiological studies.

[The preventive treatment of stroke in patients with discirculatory encephalopathy with a depressive syndrome].

We studied the clinical efficacy of cytoflavin in 30 patients (group 1) with I and II stages of discirculatory encephalopathy (DE) and a depressive syndrome associated with arterial hypertension. Cytoflavin was added to standard treatment intravenously in drops in dose 10 ml per 200 ml of 0,9% NaCl during 10 days and then in dose 2 tablets twice a day during 25 days. The control group (n=29 patients) received placebo.