[Long-term survival of poststroke patients and problem of the cardiovascular risk factors control according to the data of Krasnodar stroke register].

Out of 254 patients included in Krasnodar stroke register in the last half-year of 1997, 48.8% survived one year, 26.8% were alive by June 2003 and 5.5% have left the region. A dynamics of the prevalence of the risk factors for secondary stroke during 5.7 +/- 0.2 years indicated a significant increase of cardiovascular system lesion. However, the corrective means of major modifying cardiovascular risk factors substantially differed from those recommended by the results of large randomized clinical studies conducted over the last years. Use of detected reserves of secondary prophylaxis in patients who survived stroke is restricted by organizational and economic problems.