Must Know - Precaution For Heart Attack

Must Know - Precaution For Heart Attack 

Discover your risk for heart disease. Here are few facts:

Facts: 

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1. Nearly half of those who die from heart attacks each year never showed prior symptoms of heart disease.

2. If you suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, you have just a 7% chance of survival.

3. Right now, millions of people over age 40 are suffering from heart disease and do not even know it!

So don’t be caught off guard. Know your risk now!!

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Stop Smoking:

Smoking cigarettes tops the list as the most important preventable major risk factor of our No. 1 killer — heart and blood vessel disease. The long list of diseases and deaths due to smoking is frightening. Smoking also harms thousands of nonsmokers, including infants and children, who are exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke.

If you smoke, you have good reason to worry about its effect on your health, your loved ones and others. When you quit, you reduce that risk tremendously!

Risk Factors for Stroke:

Your first line of defense in preventing a stroke 2018 is to know where you stand. So before we get into the actual warning signs for a stroke, let’s review some of the risk factors. Controlling them is not a guarantee against a stroke, of course, but it can lower the chances considerably. Statistics show that up to 50 percent of all strokes are preventable. Everyone has two kinds of risk factors: those they can change and those they cannot.

Stroke Risk Factors You Can’t Change

Age. The risk of stroke increases with age. Two thirds of strokes happen in people over the age of 65. The chance of having a stroke almost doubles for each decade of life after age 55.

Gender. Stroke is about 25 percent more common in men than women until age 75. Overall, however, more women than men die of stroke. Birth control pills and pregnancy pose particular risks for younger women. And because women live longer than men, they are more likely to have an increased death rate after age 75.

Family History. Your risk is higher if a parent, grandparent, or sibling has had a stroke. This includes the mini-stroke called a transient ischemic attack (TIA).

Personal History. Anyone who has had a prior stroke, TIA, or a heart attack has a much higher risk of another stroke. A TIA is a very strong predictor of a stroke. Those who have had a TIA have about 10 times greater risk for a subsequent stroke — which is why TIAs are also called “warning strokes”.

Stroke Risk Factors You CAN Change

Hypertension. High blood pressure is by far the most significant risk factor for stroke. Luckily, this biggest risk factor is one that you can control. It can be managed with lifestyle changes and medication.

High Cholesterol. High levels of bad (LDL) cholesterol can result in hardening of the arteries, which leads to plaque deposits on the walls of blood vessels.

Stress. Studies show that people who experience high stress levels are more likely to develop hardened arteries than those who stay calm under pressure. The reason for this is that high stress causes the body to release more cortisol (the “fight or flight” hormone), which causes arteries to narrow.

Food and Alcohol Choices. Diets high in saturated fats and trans fats raise cholesterol levels, while diets high in salt increase blood pressure. These two factors together can put a great deal of strain on blood vessels and the heart. A moderate amount of alcohol has a protective effect, but alcohol abuse increases risk of stroke.

Smoking. The combination of nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke (including secondhand smoke) is extremely damaging to the cardiovascular system. Over time, it causes a narrowing and weakening of the arteries called

Atherosclerosis. This results in a need for the heart to pump harder, leading to hypertension. Smoking combined with the use of oral contraceptives greatly increases the risk of stroke in women.

Sedentary Lifestyle and Obesity. Being inactive increases your weight, which leads to an increase in blood pressure.

Diabetes. With diabetes comes serious circulation problems that can double the risk of stroke. Also, many people with diabetes have other risk factors, such as being overweight and having high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol.

Heart Disease. The same problems that are associated with heart disease (narrowing of the arteries, plaque buildup, etc.) can lead to stroke. That’s why I call stroke a “heart attack in the brain.”

The Five Major Stroke Warning Signs:

If your first line of defense in preventing a stroke is assessing your personal health, your second — and even more important — defense is recognizing the warning signs. This is what will save your life if you’re headed for a stroke. There are five main warning signs of a stroke. You might experience some or all of them:

1. Sudden vision problems; difficulty seeing out of one or both eyes.

2. Sudden headache; severe pain with no apparent cause.

3. Sudden confusion; you become unable to think or speak clearly, or can’t understand what others are saying to you.

4. Sudden numbness; weakness and lack of feeling in the face, arm, or leg, particularly if it is isolated on one side of the body.

5. Sudden lack of coordination, including dizziness or loss of balance.

The warning signs of a stroke are very much like the warning signs along a road. They’re there to alert you to a danger you might not see coming. But if you take heed, you can avoid calamity.

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STROKE IDENTIFICATION: 

During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. 

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) 

She had suffered a stroke at the party. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. 

Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this... 

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. 

RECOGNIZING A STROKE:

Remember the '3' steps, STR ... Read and Learn! 

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. 

The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. 

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions : 

S * Ask the individual to SMILE . 

T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg 'It is sunny out today'). 

R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS . 

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. 

NOTE : Another 'sign' of a stroke is:

1. Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue.

2. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke. 

SAVE LIFE !

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Prepared by Major (R) Md. Lutful Huda, presently Chairman of TIDAC and Dreamwork Limited, Chief Editor of 'Crime and Judgement' Magazine