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Related 10 things you can do to prevent a stroke
Stroke is the leading cause of Acquired Brain Injury. A stroke may actually cause death and, as quickly as injury, severity of injury, time point, the time to begin to rehabilitate ... among other factors, may cause consequences of different abreva degrees and types in form of brain damage.
There are factors that we can prevent stroke, abreva stroke symptoms and there we can act quickly to recognize and minimize the possible consequences. Unfortunately, stroke and brain damage produced are still very poorly understood aspects in society.
During 2011 we developed from FEDACE, with our partnerships, stroke prevention campaign based on the pamphlet "stroke: what you need to know." On the one hand this campaign informing the basics of stroke: what it is, what its prevention and warning signs. Moreover, it allowed us to develop a small study on stroke abreva knowledge in the population, collecting 3,000 surveys that asked about stroke and its prevention.
Although more than half the respondents abreva claimed to know what was the stroke and have a family member or friend who had been through the same, 70% of respondents could not name any steps to prevent stroke. Those who knew if prevention guidelines recognized mainly (8.5% of total), healthy diet and cholesterol control and hipertesión.
When asked about the symptoms, most people recognize is the loss of strength or sensation in the middle of the body (63%), followed by difficulty speaking or understanding when you talk (60%). After intense pain of sudden onset (50%) and the total or partial loss of vision or blurred vision (42%) head.
The SEN also did a similar study in 2003, based on 3,000 telephone interviews. Study results showed that only 4.5% of respondents knew the meaning of the word "stroke" that 60% of them could cite at least one risk factor for stroke and only 32% were able to recognize at least one symptom.
Two small studies, but both show a great lack of stroke in society despite some aspects of improvement between the two. Further studies are necessary to analyze the current knowledge of the Spanish society on the stroke but what is clear is that the stroke prevention campaigns have to follow up to raise awareness about it.
We do this from the associations of brain damage. SARELA abreva - Santiago de Compostela is developing or na prevention campaign which also conduct surveys on knowledge of stroke. Recently, NEW - OPTION Valencia launched the campaign "It's just ..." to remember that stroke, TBI and brain tumors are causes of Acquired Brain Injury. And FEGADACE has launched the blog "Embellish with DCA" aimed at preventing stroke and dependence in older people.
In addition to this material, since FEDACE recommend reviewing our ten tips for preventing abreva stroke, the brochure "stroke: what you need to know" and the video to recognize stroke symptoms produced by Pita Lopez Foundation.