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Video content is consulted by a Doctor of Examination & Internal Medicine - Vinmec Central Park International General Hospital
There are two main causes of stroke: Heart causes and brain strokes (hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke). If there is a malfunction in other organ systems in the body that endangers the patient's life, it will happen gradually. A normal, healthy person suddenly collapses and walks away, there are only 2 causes: heart or brain. How dangerous a stroke is or whether a stroke is fatal is a question that many people care about.
Stroke in general and winter stroke in particular will happen suddenly and without warning signs, the patient may have normal activities 1-2 seconds before, but 1-2 seconds later, any abnormality will occur. Normally, hemiplegia, slurred speech... To prevent stroke, it is necessary to control well the risk factors of the underlying disease leading to stroke.
Around the world, every 40 seconds a patient has a stroke, every 3 minutes there is a death of a stroke. According to statistics of the Vietnam Association for the Prevention of Cerebrovascular Accident, our country has about 200,000 stroke patients every year. Acute stroke is especially dangerous because of its high mortality rate, up to 50%, fast death time, life-saving cases can have severe sequelae, expensive brain stroke treatment costs and high mortality rate. high recurrence.
In some temperate countries such as Korea, European countries in the cold season, the number of people with winter stroke has an increase compared to the hot season. This proves that the weather factor is related to people having a stroke. Scientifically, night baths and cold showers cannot directly cause cerebral blood vessel rupture or ischemic stroke. However, the night bath, cold shower causes sudden or rapid temperature fluctuations, which cause the body to react and affect blood pressure or underlying disease and cause the patient to have a stroke.
To prevent winter stroke, besides controlling and treating risk factors, patients can apply the following preventive measures:
Periodic health check-ups every 3-6 months; Lifestyle changes; Exercise regularly; Control blood pressure; Reasonable diet; Treatment of stroke risk conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular...
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