Clinical characteristics and frequent risk factors in young adult patients with stroke at a tertiary care hospital in Honduras.

Young adults accounted for 30.0% of stroke cases evaluated.

The mean age was 43.4 ± 9.1 years.

The 61.4% were women, 55.7% had a history of hypertension, 31.4% had type 2 diabetes mellitus, and 24.3% had migraines.

A patent foramen ovale (patent foramen ovale) was identified in 5 of 17 cases, corresponding to 29.4% of the tested subgroup and 7.1% of the total sample and mortality was 15.7%.