As can be guessed from the description of stroke just given, stroke represents a serious medical emergency.
More common in men and in industrialized countries, stroke recognizes several favoring factors, among the latter, the main ones are: hypertension, atherosclerosis, cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse.
Stroke symptoms vary from patient to patient, based on the severity of the condition, the area of the brain affected, the causes, the type of stroke, etc.
As a medical emergency, stroke requires immediate and adequate care to the patient's needs; only in this way, in fact, is it possible to limit the consequences of the cerebrovascular event and hope for at least partial recovery.
Stroke is a preventable condition; certainly, a healthy lifestyle, without excesses, reduces the risk.
Stroke is characterized by its sudden onset; this characteristic, associated with what has been said in the preceding lines, entails the need for an immediate therapeutic intervention that is adequate to the patient's needs.
Stroke is also known as brain stroke, stroke, and stroke.
