[Certain clinical and epidemiological problems of reversible ischemic neurological deficit]

The studied material comprised 280 patients hospitalized for the first time for reversible ischaemic neurological deficit. The clinical condition of the patients, the incidence of hypertension (48.3%), ischaemic heart disease (36.4%) and diabetes (4.3%) was assessed and the indices were calculated of first admissions to hospital and the individual groups of diseases. The annual incidence of the RIND was 22.7/100 thousand, 3.6/100 thousand for TIA in the population of Warsaw City District.