Have You Experienced A Silent Stroke Today?
Every year, more than 500,000 U.S. citizens are diagnosed by their doctors as having had a stroke making it one of the top health problems in the country. But along with the many major strokes are diagnosed, there are a huge number of silent strokes that are occurring as well.
Many of these strokes go unnoticed because people often think of strokes as a dramatic event that instantly causes symptoms like paralysis, inability to speak, and so on. Many so called silent strokes, however, do not trigger such symptoms.
A great deal of the time, the first clue that a person may have had a silent or mini-stroke occurs as they’re taking medical tests for some seemingly unrelated problems. In fact, a research study last year revealed that as many as many as 10 percent of people with an average age of 62 had evidence of a min-stroke according to their MRI brain scan.
One of the more distressing trendlines of the previous decade, is that the sheer amounts of incidences of these mini-strokes seem to be occurring at younger and younger ages. And, that’s probably to be anticipated as some of the major diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure are occurring in young adults at earlier ages as well. The very disconcerting point about the ever rising number of silent strokes, however, is that many people are having them and don’t even realize it because they have no symptoms.
In fact, in most cases the only evidence that a silent stroke has occurred may be the printout on an MRI brain scan, which many people don’t have as a regular part of the annual checkup.
The truly sad part about this state of affairs is that many strokes are preventable simply by following sensible health guidelines on how to lower high blood pressure safely.
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