A mini stroke or TIA is not harmless. Apollo-Neurologist Dr Sudhir Kumar warn it is one of the strongest predictors of a ...
Time is of the essence when someone has a stroke. Four and a half hours — that’s your window to receive treatment with clot-busting agents before permanent damage is done. You have longer, up to 24 ...
Thousands die of strokes across the world every year. In 2019, stroke was the second leading cause of mortality globally, accounting for 11 per cent of deaths. Stroke has three main types, with the ...
The NHS Fast (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym is a simple way to help people identify the most common signs of a stroke: ...
People are understandably concerned when health conditions or infectious diseases that were once well-managed start increasing again, but proper education and advancements in medicine mean we often ...
In-hospital strokes — defined as those occurring during hospitalization for another diagnosis — are relatively common, affecting between 35,000 and 75,000 patients each year in the US. While the ...