Global prevention of stroke and dementia: the WSO Declaration.

I'm sure this is complete and total useless crapola focusing on lazy prevention press releases. The WSO isn't responsible enough to have stroke in their name, not sure what they are but they are not for survivors, zero survivor outreach.

Damn it all: stroke is easy; 5 steps.
1.  Describe the problems exactly.
2.  Write thousands of RFPs to researchers/MIT grads to solve those problems.
3.  Fund them with foundation grants.
4.  Write stroke rehab protocols based on the research.
5.  Get the Nobel prize in medicine

 Do enough iterations of that and you will solve stroke.

 Global prevention of stroke and dementia: the WSO Declaration.

• Michael Brainin
• Valery L Feigin
• Bo Norrving
• Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins
• Graeme J Hankey
• Vladimir Hachinski
• et al.
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Published:June, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30141-1

The global burden of stroke and dementia are increasing. If current trends continue, by 2050 we can expect about 200 million stroke survivors and 106 million people with dementia, and each year thereafter, over 30 million new strokes, 12 million deaths from stroke, and almost 5 million deaths from dementia. This looming future will threaten the sustainability of health systems worldwide. Yet it is preventable, as a substantial proportion of the burden is attributable to risk factors that can be modified. However, current strategies of primary prevention for stroke and cardiovascular disease to modify causal risk factors have not proved sufficiently effective in containing the rapidly increasing burden of stroke. There is an urgent need to address the limitations of current strategies, and to entertain new, more effective, affordable, and widely applicable strategies to complement current approaches in the fight against stroke and dementia. Given the commonality of risk factors and the reciprocal relationship of stroke and dementia, a joint prevention strategy is recommended.

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Published: June 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30141-1

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