Watch Your Brain of a Stroke (I)
Stroke is a cerebrovascular disease that causes physical and cognitive impairment is a major cause of mortality and low labor around the world. It mainly affects older people but can occur in younger patients and even children.
Despite its high incidence, there is widespread ignorance about the stroke. Statistics show that every 40 seconds someone suffers a stroke or stroke in the United States, while in Spain, there are about 100 thousand new cases each year.
Men tend to have more strokes than women, although they are likely to occur during pregnancy or in the weeks afterwards.
Stroke or stroke is defined as the interruption of blood supply to any part of the brain. It is caused by a ruptured blood vessel or because it becomes clogged by a clot or other particle. This is due to the development of fatty deposits on the walls of the vessel (a condition known as atherosclerosis).
Fat deposits can cause two types of jam: 1) thrombosis, which occurs when a clot develops in the same cerebral blood vessel, or 2) embolism, the clot develops elsewhere in the body and then a portion of it breaks off and travels through the bloodstream until it finds a smaller vessel and blocks it.
As a result, nerve cells in the brain area affected longer receive oxygen and unable to work, die after a few minutes.
Stroke is known with many names or synonyms, including: Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA or ACVA), stroke, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke or stroke, among others.
Risk factors for stroke
Age, sex, race and family history are factors that increase the risk of stroke or stroke. There are also other risk factors such as having suffered a stroke earlier, having elevated blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, high cholesterol, excessive alcohol consumption, drugs such as cocaine, smoking, head injury, or consumption of certain Medications such as birth control pills, among others.
