Stroke
Attack that occurs when a cerebral blood vessel is blocked, so no blood reaches the brain tissue. It has a number of immediate effects:
- A hemiplegia, when the loss of strength comes from one side of the body.
- If there is difficulty understanding and to find the words to express it comes to a picture of aphasia.
- If you lose vision on one side of the visual field is a hemianopsia.
- Slurred speech (dysarthria), difficulty modular, double vision (diploma, loss of sensation from one side of the body (hemi and loss of balance or coordination (ataxia).Strokes can affect people of any age but is more common in older adults, particularly in those with risk factors such as hypertension, cardiac and arterial processes, diabetes or even the traditional habits such as smoking or consumption of alcohol. Strokes can be prevented by controlling or correcting the most important risk factors.
So you have to carry out a blood pressure control, as well as any heart disease, such as arrhythmias, valvular procedures or coronary disease, not to smoke, need to moderate alcohol consumption, and is indispensable control of blood glucose, especially in those with a family history of diabetes. It is necessary to control blood cholesterol and lipids in general, and we must avoid becoming overweight.
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