A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL RESEARCH TO ASSESS THE FREQUENCY OF HYPERGLYCEMIA IN ACUTE STROKE NON-DIABETIC PATIENTS

Objective: To check out the incidences of hyperglycemia in non-diabetes patients suffering from a stroke. Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional research completed at Service Hospital, Lahore in the timeframe from September 2016 to October 2017. A hundred and seventy-one subjects participated in the study whose ages were between (30 - 70) years. The subjects included both males and females. All the patients had diabetes mellitus and other diseases were not included in the study in the light of exclusion criteria. After taking a relevant history, a blood sample of each patient was drawn and sent to the pathology laboratory for measurement of blood glucose levels. The patients with the prevalence of hyperglycemia (blood sugar > 11.1 mmol/l) evaluated on the basis of laboratory results. Results: The participants mean age was 53.82 years with a deviation of (+/- 10.31) years. The sample composition in respect of gender was 89 males and 82 females. The male to female ratio was (1.1 to 1). The disease duration was (10.29 +/- 6.53) hours and mean of Body Mass Index was (28.41) with a deviation of (+/- 5.33) kg/m(2). The study delivered the prevalence of high blood glucose in 44 patients; whereas, no hyperglycemia case reported in the total of 127 patients. Conclusion: The occurrence of hyperglycemia in non-diabetic stroke patients studied in this research was higher. The need is to exercise extreme care in such cases for timely identification and cure of hyperglycemia to minimize the mortality and morbidity rate associated with the disease.