Аннотация
INTRODUCTION: Stroke is one of the most common cause of disability in Kazakhstan. Although it is known that the incidence of and mortality from stroke in Kazakhstan is among the highest in the European WHO region, little information on the structure and case fatality of stroke is available in international literature. The aim of this descriptive study is to summarize the evidence on the structure and case fatality among the patients with stroke in Semey, East Kazakhstan. METHODS: We analyzed case histories of all patients hospitalized in municipal emergency hospital where all stroke patients get hospitalized during the period 2001–12. The population served by his hospital increased from 296037–341429 during the study period. We present the incidence of stroke using hospital data assuming that all cases are hospitalized to this hospital, proportions of different types of stroke among all cases and case fatality among hospitalized patients. The population served by his hospital increased from 296,037–341,429 with changes in structure, therefore we calculated standardized incidence.