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    A stroke happens when blood flow to an area of the brain is cut off. Brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die. Each year about 185,000 people die from a stroke. By learning the many warning signs of a stroke – you can help save a life.

    1 FACE

    Ask the person to smile. Dose one side of the face drop?

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    Ask the person to raise both arms. Does oneside drift downward?

    3 SPEECH

    Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase. Is their speech slurred or strange?

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Saudi Stroke Society
Tuesday, 22 January 2019 / Published in News, Sin categoría

Stroke by numbers

Stroke is globally considered to be the most common cause of preventable disability in adults, it also ranks as the second most common cause of death, it is also a leading cause of dementia and depression.

About half of people who have had a stroke live less than one year. Disability affects 75% of stroke survivors enough to decrease their employability. 30 to 50% of stroke survivors suffer post-stroke depression. Up to 10% of people following a stroke develop seizures.

Overall, two thirds of strokes occurred in those over 65 years old. Treating hypertension can reduce the risk of a stroke by 40%. Smoking just one cigarette per day increases the risk more than 30%.

Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of stroke by 2 to 3 times. High levels of physical activity reduce the risk of stroke by about 26%. Those with atrial fibrillation have a 5% a year risk of stroke
Nutrition, specifically the Mediterranean-style diet, has the potential for decreasing the risk of having a stroke by more than half

Every minute in which a large vessel ischemic stroke is untreated, the average patient loses 1.9 million neurons, 13.8 billion synapses, and 12 km of axonal fibers. Each hour in which treatment fails to occur, the brain loses as many neuron as it does in almost 3.6 years of normal aging.

1- Donnan GA, Fisher M, Macleod M, Davis SM (May 2008). “”Stroke””. Lancet. 371 (9624): 1612–23. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60694-7. PMID 18468545.
2-Coffey C. Edward; Cummings Jeffrey L; Starkstein Sergio; Robinson Robert (2000). Stroke – the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry (Second ed.). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press. pp. 601–17
3-Chen, R., Ovbiagele, B., & Feng, W. (2016). Diabetes and Stroke: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Pharmaceuticals and Outcomes. The American Journal Of The Medical Sciences, 351(4), 380-386. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2016.01.011
4- Wolf PA, Abbott RD, Kannel WB (1987). “”Atrial fibrillation: a major contributor to stroke in the elderly. The Framingham Study””. Arch. Intern. Med. 147(9): 1561–64. doi:10.1001/archinte.147.9.1561. PMID 3632164.

 

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SAUDI STROKE SOCIETY serves as the voice of stroke in Saudi Arabia harmonizing stroke management across the country and taking action to reduce the burden of stroke regionally and globally.


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