The National Health Observatory (ONS) of the National Institute of Health in Colombia (INS) in its Bulletin # 1 of December 9, 2013, states that cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the country. In the period 1998--2011, 628 630 deaths from cardiovascular disease were reported, corresponding to 23.5% of all deaths in Colombia. Of the deaths attributed to the group of selected cardiovascular disease, 56.3% were due to ischemic heart disease, 30.6% to cerebrovascular disease, 12.4% to hypertensive disease and 0.5% to chronic rheumatic heart disease. Despite these figures and the known social and economic impact generated by these diseases, no adequate attention to cerebrovascular diseases is provided, a concern that should not be neglected and that implies a successful intervention from different medical specialties, as well as an implementation of strategies to improve the load generated by them. A recent article published in The Lancet, presents the study of regional and global burden of stroke during 1990--2010, in which is shown how its incidence increased by 12% in countries with middle and low income, while in those with high income it decreased by the same percentage. Likewise, the absolute number of people with a first