Stroke in Young Adults: A Prospective Study from Northwestern Nigeria

Table 3

Traditional risk factors*.

Risk factors	Frequency	Percentage
Hypertension	53	74.7
Smoking	36	50.7
Hypercholesterolemia	7	9.9
Cardiac diseases**	6	8.5
HIV	6	8.5
Previous stroke and or transient ischaemic attack	4	5.6
Diabetes	3	4.2
Alcohol	3	4.2
Migraine	3	4.2
Drug of addiction (cocaine, amphetamine)	2	2.8
Sickle cell disease	2	2.8
Connective tissue disease	1	1.4
Unidentified	6	8.5

^∗Some patients had multiple risk factors.
^∗∗Nonhypertensive heart diseases (rheumatic and nonrheumatic valvular heart diseases).