“it’s important to know your health and any potential risk factors you might have for strokes, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, difficulty with sugars,” hussain told people magazine. “… when we have younger people having a stroke, we will look for things that would cause their blood to have a tendency to clot — it could be hereditary and run in their families.”
healthy diet, exercise, medications and diagnosis of any underlying medical disorders — for example, high blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms,
diabetes or high cholesterol — are all things that should be explored to manage the risks of a stroke. having
contracted covid-19 is also linked to an increased risk of developing blood clots.
act fast: recognizing the signs of a stroke
the heart and stroke foundation of canada recommends using the mnemonic fast to remember the effects of a stroke or mini stroke.
heart and stroke foundation of canada
strokes are the leading cause of disability in canada and the third leading cause of death, according to
the ontario stroke network. every year, about 50,000 many people have a stroke in canada, amounting to roughly one every 10 minutes.
while strokes disproportionately affect those over the age of 65, young adults are not immune. from 2012 to 2013, 960 canadians between the ages of 20- and 24- years-old (0.04 per cent of all canadians in this age bracket) and 2,790 canadians between the ages of 25-29 (0.1 per cent of all canadians in this age bracket) experienced a stroke,
according to the canadian chronic disease surveillance system data.
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