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| 3/1/2009 | THE INSIDER - A Health WorldNet Exclusive |
| The Stroke Epidemic Part One - Can We Turn It Around? |
| Stroke is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer. In the US heart disease kills 650,000 people a year, cancer 550,000 and strokes 150,000.
Deaths from stroke in the United States reached a high in 1979 of 160,000, then went down to 135,000 in the early nineties, then it started going back up and is at 150,000 a year now, costing 60 billion healthcare dollars. That baby boomers are approaching their stroke-prone years is usually the reason given for the increase in stroke incidence. If so, the burden on our health care system can be expected to increase. Reason for the decrease during the 1980s is more than likely due to lifestyle changes in response to the increased health education for cardiovascular disease. Strokes have been documented as long as there have been people to document them. Known as apoplexy, the Hebrews wrote about it while in Babylon and Hippocrates talked about them in 400 BC, noting that 'men between the ages of 40 to 60 years old are most likely to suffer one, and that a strong attack will not go away while a weaker one is more likely to do so.' His observations were probably the first to distinguish Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs) from the more permanent Cerebrovascular Attacks (CVAs). Since Hippocrate's observations we've learned that 80 percent of strokes are ischemic, from a clot, 20 percent are from vessels rupturing. Most strokes are first strokes up to 70 percent. |
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After 2 years, 5 months at a stroke as aphasia, I learn. Lori and I had a baby, Rowan. She is talking too. Lucky, I’ll catch ahead.
Hopefully this blog, the Battling Heart and Stroke blog, can help bridge the gap and help provide information and articles that we can learn how to reduce these risk factors and go on to live long and healthy lives, without heart disease and strokes
One year ago I had a stroke which ended up with aphasia. Now that I have almost recovered, I want to share my experience wiht fellow aphasia patients, their caregivers and the medical community. My blog is about day by day account of what happened with me. And various treatments of Aphasia, Apraxia, Dysarthria that went well.
I'm known as the Aphasia Decoder because I've spent the better part of a decade "decoding" my husband, Don's, aphasia and apraxia---two language disorders caused by a massive stroke that left him right side paralyzed.
When my husband had a stroke early on the morning of July 4, 2005, I felt all alone and unprepared to deal with the situation. He was only 42, I was six months pregnant, and even after scouring the Internet, I was unable to find a support group or someone to talk to. This blog is created for people like me, who just need to know someone is out there.
For 4 years now, I've been caregiver for my husband who suffered a massive stroke that left him paralysed on his right side and left him with two language disorders - aphasia and apraxia.
I have spent most of my adult years in management, over 30. I had my stroke while on an extended business trip in Toulouse, France. I had been there for more than two months.
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