Category: Stroke Prevention

Stress burdens your psyche as well as your body with additional emotional and physical tension, and it can easily take control of your life if you let it. Whether it surrounds your health, work, or personal life, it’s easy to allow this weight to hang over your shoulders for long periods of time; days, months,…

What Is a Stroke? When a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain becomes blocked by a clot and a stroke occurs as a result, it is called an ischemic stroke. A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when the affected blood vessel bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the blood and…

Your diet has a direct impact on your health. Therefore, it is not surprising that it can help you prevent a stroke. Whether you have already suffered a stroke or want to prevent future strokes, your diet plays a key role. Major contributors to stroke Obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure are all major…

The benefits of a diet change Risk factors that favour suffering a stroke can be genetic, but smoking, obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure also influence the risk of stroke. Most of these risk factors can be significantly lessened by adopting a healthy diet. Maintaining a consistently healthy diet can lower blood pressure and…

The risk of having a stroke can be further increased by various risk factors. While you cannot control your age, sex, race, or family history, it is important to be aware that these factors could be predisposing you to a stroke. Awareness may encourage you to make lifestyle changes for the risk factors that you…

Leading causes of death in the United States In the United States, heart disease and stroke rank in the top 5 causes of death with heart disease being the first leading cause. Combined, they are the most widespread health problems facing the country. It is estimated that every 40 seconds, an American adult dies of…

When the artery to the brain becomes blocked and the brain can no longer be supplied with vital oxygen, an ischaemic stroke occurs. Without oxygen, the neural pathways in the affected area of the brain begin to die, resulting in immediate stroke symptoms and long-term post-stroke effects. Strokes can happen to anybody at any age,…

When identifying a stroke, it is important to act F.A.S.T. The American Stroke Association has developed the following tool to recognise a stroke quickly and to be able to call for medical help immediately in case of an emergency.   F- Face. Is one side of the person’s face drooping? When they smile, is it…

Another term for a stroke, but which means exactly the same thing, is cerebrovascular accident. In this case, blood flow is interrupted and damage to the brain occurs as a result. Interestingly, there have been several studies that seek to determine the relationship between Alzheimer’s and/or Dementia, neurodegenerative diseases, with stroke, a vascular disease. Researchers…

Heart disease and stroke are the first and fifth leading causes of death in the United States respectively. Combined, they are the most widespread health problems facing the country. It is estimated that every 40 seconds, an American adult dies of a heart attack, stroke or related disease. Ironically, these conditions are also considered easily…