Cerebrovascular disease and its risk factors in korea

Cerebrovascular disease is the most predominant cause of death in Korean adult population. The incidence of cerebral hemorrhage is a little higher than cerebral infarction and prognosis of cerebral hemorrhage is very poor as compared with cerebral infarction. As a risk factor hypertension plays the most important role not only in cerebral hemorrhage but also in cerebral infarction, and serum lipids have less important roles in Korean stroke patients. However, serum triglyceride has close relationship with high incidence of stroke complication in hypertension. Plasma renin activity does not seem to play any important role as a risk factor in Korean stroke patients.