Epidemiology is the basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine. It describes the occurrence of health-related states or events (incidence, prevalence), quantifies the risk of disease (relative risk) and its outcome (prognosis, survival, mortality), and postulates causal mechanisms for disease in populations (aetiology, prevention). The main function of epidemiology is to pro...

background: unlike the western hemisphere, information about stroke epidemiology in southern iran is scarce. the aim of this study was to determine the main epidemiological characteristics of patients with stroke and its mortality rate in southern iran. methods: a retrospective, single-center, hospital-based longitudinal study was performed at nemazee hospital in shiraz, southern iran. patients...