Background: Egypt is a densely populated country with living habits and health care services that differ from urban to rural regions. We aimed to study how characteristics of stroke vary among these regions.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional observational study of ischemic stroke, thus hemorrhagic and venous strokes were excluded. A total of 1475 ischemic stroke patients were recruited for analysis from a tertiary hospital in Cairo representing urban area and from a secondary care hospital in Suhag representing rural region.
Results: Analysis was done for 1143 ischemic stroke patients from urban and 332 from rural area. Onset to door was shorter in urban. Urban patients showed an older age and higher prevalence of hypertension and diabetes (65.9%, 48.6% respectively), while rural patients were characterized by female preponderance (51.5%), more dyslipidemia, smoking 44.6%, stroke in young 20.5%, atrial fibrillation 23.8% % and recurrent stroke 44.3%. Rural cases showed a severer deficit at onset and poorer outcome.
Conclusion: Vascular risk factors, stroke type, and presentation tend to differ in Egypt according to the geographic distribution whether urban or rural. Studying patterns of such difference may aid in planning specific targeted preventive and therapeutic strategies for stroke in urban and rural Egypt.
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