Stroke seems foreign to you? It shouldn’t. It is an American problem. In fact, it is the No. 3 killer in the United States, behind heart attack and cancer. About 150,000 of 500,000 stroke victims die each year.
Stroke is often a sudden and severe attack. It is caused when a blood vessel bringing oxygen and nutrients to your brain either bursts or is clogged by a blood clot or another particle. This prevents blood from flowing to a part of the brain, killing brain cells.
There are four main types of stroke. Clots that plug an artery cause the two most common kinds. Ruptured blood vessels cause the other two.
The variety of strokes could alter your behavior and thought patterns, memory, sense, ability to move parts of your body, speech and your ability to understand speech. You could have one or more of the major uncontrollable risk factors. For example, the older you get, the greater your risk of stroke. Blacks and men have a higher incidence than others.
You’re more likely to have a stroke if you or a close blood relative already had one. Two other major risk factors are diabetes mellitus and asymptomatic carotid bruit (an abnormal sound doctos hear when placing a stethoscope over the carotid artery in your neck).
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