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Call To Action: Americans Fear Terrorism More Than What Is Likely To Kill Them
The 2016 Chapman University Survey of American Fears gave me pause for reflection. Leading the list of what strikes fear into the more than 1,500 Americans surveyed was “corrupt government officials” (60.6% of respondents), followed by terrorist attacks (41%). Much farther down the list, only 20.3% reported “becoming seriously ill” as a cause for concern.
As a physician who spends her days caring for patients with strokes, or “brain attacks,” I wondered how many strokes we could avoid entirely if people feared brain attacks as much as they fear terrorist attacks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 795,000 strokes occur in the United States each year.…
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Heart Attack & Stroke Calculator
This calculator is only valid if you have not already been diagnosed with heart disease or stroke.
A National Goal: Prevent a Million Heart Attacks and Strokes by 2022
There is already a well-established path to countering cardiovascular disease. All it really requires is the will of individuals and society to follow it.
World Stroke Campaign
Here are six steps anyone can take to reduce the risk and the danger of stroke...
Fibrinogen, your stroke predictor
Today's lab "reference" range (which I call "the dead and dying range") for fibrinogen is between 193-423. Most functional or optimal levels are being reported between 200 and 300. Most studies indicate that levels over 300 indicate a higher risk of myocardial infarction, stroke or vascular disease.
Saunas May Reduce Stroke Risk
Although the researchers found a strong effect independent of other variables, the study was observational and cannot prove causality. Still, there are plausible reasons saunas might be protective.
Walking Just 35 Minutes A Day Could Lessen The Severity Of Strokes
Compared to people who don’t exercise much at all, those who engage in light to moderate physical activity, such as walking at least four hours a week or swimming two to three hours a week, may have less severe strokes, based on the findings of a new study.
Want to calculate your risk of heart attack or stroke? This new online tool will help
Ottawa researchers say their new online calculator can give an idea of a person's chance of having a stroke or a heart attack within the next five years.
Preparing the Brain for a Stroke Before It Occurs
With further research, it’s at least possible that doctors could one day use such a treatment on high-risk patients so that their brains are primed with new vessels in case something worse happens down the line.
10 Natural Ways to Prevent a Stroke
If you’re like most Americans, you plan your future. When you take a job, you examine its benefit plan. When you buy a home, you consider its location and condition so that your investment is safe. Today, more and more Americans are protecting their most important asset—their brain. Are you?
6 Ways to Lower Your Stroke Risk
Research finds that key lifestyle steps can help prevent this devastating event.
7 things you can do to prevent a stroke
What can you do to prevent stroke? Age makes us more susceptible to having a stroke, as does having a mother, father, or other close relative who has had a stroke. You can't reverse the years or change your family history, but there are many other stroke risk factors that you can control—provided that you're aware of them.
A New Focus on Aspirin in Preventing Strokes
The drug may play a more important role than previously thought.
African American And High-Risk? 4 Ways To Prevent A Deadly Stroke
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S., striking every 40 seconds and claiming a life every four minutes. Contrary to public opinion, strokes are not just an elderly problem, and they certainly are not strictly a male problem. In fact, strokes skew toward women, claiming twice as many lives as breast cancer. One in five women will have a stroke in her lifetime. A closer look at the stroke demographics uncovers even more disconcerting facts about the disease. Regardless of age or gender, strokes impact African Americans more than any other racial population in the U.S. Why?
Brain Basics: Preventing Stroke
Many risk factors for stroke can be managed, some very successfully. Although risk is never zero at any age, by starting early and controlling your risk factors you can lower your risk of death or disability from stroke. With good control, the risk of stroke in most age groups can be kept below that for accidental injury or death.
Can Chocolate Decrease Your Risk Of Stroke?
Maybe life in Sweden is a bit sweeter--and tastes better too. In a recently published study in the journal, Neurology, a cohort of Swedish men (ages 49-75) eating higher amounts of chocolate had a significantly decreased risk of having a stroke, after accounting for other lifestyle variables. The study found that those men who ate the most chocolate had the lowest risk of developing a stroke over the 10 year study period.
Diet for stroke prevention
Diet is an important part of stroke prevention. Reducing sodium intake, avoiding egg yolks, limiting the intake of animal flesh (particularly red meat), and increasing the intake of whole grains, fruits, vegetables and lentils would contribute importantly to reversing the trend to increased cardiovascular risk in China.
How to Prevent a Stroke
Here are some things everyone can do to lower their chances of having a stroke–these things will also lower your risk of having a heart attack...
Primary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke
This guideline provides an overview of the evidence on various established and potential stroke risk factors and provides recommendations for the reduction of stroke risk.
Strategies to Prevent Another Stroke
It is easy to revert back to your old habits and continue to put yourself at a high risk for another stroke or heart attack. Take a few moments, meet with your doctor and start changing the way you live -- it just may save your life.
Stroke - Can We Turn It Around?
Not only is stroke incidence increasing but there is usually no effective treatment. In the meantime controlling the risk factors of high blood pressure, diabetes and weight may help decrease your risk
What can I do to prevent a stroke?
The risk factors for a stroke can be divided into two categories - ones you can't change and ones you can.
Call To Action: Americans Fear Terrorism More Than What Is Likely To Kill Them
I remain much more fearful of having a stroke than I do of losing my life in a terrorist attack. Yes, national security is an important issue; however, as we battle threats that are much more likely to kill and disable Americans than terrorist attacks, let us place our fears where fear is warranted, and channel this energy into action.
CDC
To prevent stroke, focus on improving these four areas...
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