Mahjong Playing is Dangerous Game for Patients with Hypertension: a Possible Inducer for Stroke
SONG Zhi
Li Liuhong
Li Yonghong
Zhu Haixia
Zi Xiaohong
Fan Xuejun
Abstract：Objective To investigate relationship between mahjong playing and stroke. Methods We retrospectively studied 879 acute stroke patients who part of them got stroke just when they had been playing and finished mahjong. Two groups were divided into, including group of cerebral hemorrhagic vascular disease (CHVD) about 445 patients and of cerebral ischemic vascular disease (CIVD) about 434 patients. The ratio of patients which got stroke possibly induced by mahjong playing was counted. Chisquare test was used to compare the difference between the two groups. Results Fifty- one of 879patients (5.8%) got stroke just because of mahjong playing, and 8.8% in CHVD and 2. 8% in CIVD.In CHVD, there were 29 of 39 patients (74.4%) had positive history of hypertension when they got stroke, and in CIVD 7of 12 patients (58. 3%)had positive history of hypertension when they got stroke.Conclusions Mahjong playing is very dangerous for old people to get hemorrhgic stroke, especially for patients with hypertension.
Keywords：Stroke Mahjong playing
Publication Date：2003-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 352-353 )