Deans' stroke musings: lifetime risk of stroke is 1 in 5 for women, 1 in 6 for men

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

lifetime risk of stroke is 1 in 5 for women, 1 in 6 for men

First heard about this from the Australian Stroke Foundation with confirmation from the World Stroke Organization. This is appalling that with this high incidence that there is no general outcry about helping those who survive. We truly do need a high profile person like Michael J Fox.
If anyone wants to volunteer, step right up.

Sources
Seshadri S., Wolf P.A. (2007). Lifetime risk of stroke and dementia: current concepts, and estimates　from the Framingham Study. The Lancet Neurology 6(12), 1106-14. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1474-4422(07)70291-0
Seshadri S. et al. (2006). The lifetime risk of stroke: estimates from the Framingham Study. Stroke 37, 45-350. http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/37/2/345%20/%20%22%20/%20_blank
Participants (n=4897) who were stroke- and dementia-free at 55 years of age were followed biennially for up to 51 years. ... A total of 875 participants (522 women) developed a first-ever stroke; 749 (448 women) had an ischemic stroke. LTR of stroke was high and remained similar at ages 55, 65, and 75 years, approximating 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 6 for men. Participants with a normal BP (<120/80 mm Hg) had approximately half the LTR of stroke compared with those with high BP (=140/90 mm Hg)
We observed that the LTR of stroke for middle-aged and "young-old" adults (55 to 75 years of age) was substantial at 1 in 6 or higher. This risk was higher in women (1 in 5) compared with men, largely because of the greater life expectancy in women, which increased their period at risk.
Bushnell, C.D. (2008). Stroke and the female brain. Nature Clinical Practice Neurology 4(1), 22-33.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in most countries, and is one of the leading causes of long-term disability. Women have a higher lifetime risk of stroke than men (1 in 5 vs 1 in 6), a statistic that is influenced in part by the longer life expectancy in women. The female population not only carries a higher burden of stroke during their lifespan - women also account for the majority of stroke deaths.

Every two seconds, someone in the world suffers a stroke
Every six seconds, someone dies of a stroke
Every six seconds, someone’s quality of life will forever be changed – they will permanently be physically disabled http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570106%20/%20%22%20/%20_blank