Health Risk Behavior Related to Stroke in Indonesia

Abstract

Stroke is a condition with clinical signs that develop rapidly in focal and global neurologic deficits, which can be severe and lasts ≥24 hours and cause death, without other apparent causes besides vascular. The study aims to analyzeecologically the health risk behavior related to the prevalence of stroke in Indonesia. The research conducted an analysis using secondary data from the 2018 Indonesia Basic Health Survey. The study takes all provinces as samples. Apart from the prevalence of stroke, four other variables analyzed as independent variables were the prevalence of obesity, the percentage of the population with less physical activity, the percentage of the people with fatty/cholesterol/ fried food consumption habits ≥1 per day, and the percentage of daily smokers. Data were analyzed using a scatter plot.The study results found that the higher the prevalence of obesity in a province, the higher the prevalence of stroke. The higher the percentage of the population with less physical activity in an area, the higher the stroke prevalence. The higher the rate of peoplewith fatty/cholesterol/ fried food consumption habits ≥1 per day, the higher the prevalence of stroke in that province. The higher the percentage of daily smokers in a region, the higher the prevalence of stroke. The study concluded that the four health risk behavior analyzed ecologically were positively related to most stroke in Indonesia.