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Students Name<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0Hanan Azad Ahmed\u00a0 – Shadan Sttar Othman<\/p>\n

Supervisors Name<\/span> : PhD. Dara Abdulla\u00a0 –\u00a0 MSc. Roza Talaat<\/p>\n

Abstract\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Background and aims: When the part of the brain doesn’t get any blood flow, a stroke develops. It’s a dangerous, life-threatening condition that can lead to death. According to the findings, people who worked more than 10 hours per day for at least 50 days per year had a 29% higher risk of stroke than those who worked fewer hours. The aim of this study was to see how work type and hours affected stroke patients by gathering data from both stroke patients and healthy people.<\/p>\n

Methods: A descriptive, case-control study were conducted at the medical words and physiotherapy units of Rizgary and Hawler Teaching Hospitals in Erbil, Iraq. Data from 40 people were analyzed, among 20 cases (stroke patients) and 20 controls (healthy people). They recruited with the non-probability convinces (purposive) sampling technique through direct interview method.<\/p>\n

Results: There were 20 strokes among the 40 participants in the study, that was 60 percent were males and 40 percent were females, with 55 percent reporting employment and working seven hours per day, 15 percent working daily six hours, and 45 percent working five hours per day among cases. The majority of the cases included part-time workers who worked between 5 to 10 hours per day. 90 percent of the cases had hypertension, but only 55 percent of the control group did, and 65 percent of the cases had a family history of stroke.<\/p>\n

Conclusions and recommendations:<\/p>\n

This study concluded that the risk factors of stroke are Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypercholesterolemia, Obesity, Heart Disease, Current Smoking, Family history of Stroke and Physical inactivity. Most of the stroke cases had employed, 5 to 10 hours of the working duration per day, seven days per week in the morning shift. It recommended to control the modifiable risk factors of stroke and decreasing the number of daily hours and number of working days per week.<\/p>\n

Keywords: Working Hours; Working Type; Risk of Stroke; Adult<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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