Abstract
Stroke is a disease caused by disturbance of brain blood circulation influenced by many risk factors such as age, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood lipid level. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of risk factors that contribute to stroke incidence in stroke patients hospitalized at UKI General Hospital in 2015. The design of this study is retrospective with research methodology descriptive observational. The sample in this study is all cases of a stroke at UKI General Hospital in 2015. The result showed that the highest type of stroke is ischemic stroke (77%) with the largest age group of 40-60 years (51.3%), male sex (60 people). Prevalence risk factors are hypertension stage 2 (52,2%), blood glucose level <200 mg/dl (81,4%) low total cholesterol level (47,8%), LDL level borderline high (23%), low HDL level (44,2%).
 Keywords: stroke, risk factor, the prevalence
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