METHOD FOR CLINICAL PREDICTION OF PROBABILITY OF SUFFERED SILENT STROKE IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/02 A61B5/402 G01N33/49 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: patient is tested to determine clinical characteristics, each of which is scored to calculate a diagnostic index. The following clinical characteristics are determined: arterial hypertension taking into account its stage and length; diabetes mellitus, its length taking into account the patient's age and complications; ischemic heart disease and its length, cardiac angina, myocardial infarction and its length; the patient's age; compliance; smoking. The absence of any of the above characteristics is scored as 0 points. That is followed by calculating the total score; depending on the derived value, a high, moderate or low probability of the suffered silent stroke is predicted.

EFFECT: method enables establishing the presence of the suffered silent stroke reliably.

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