ABSENT
NG FACTORS T
The chance of having a stroke more than
doubles for each decade of life after age
1. Age 65. While stroke is common among the
elderly, a lot of people under 65 also
have strokes.
Stroke is more common in men than in
women. In most age groups, more men
than women will have a stroke in a given
year. However, more than half of total
2. Sex
stroke deaths occur in women. At all
(gender)
ages, more women than men die of
stroke. Use of birth control pills and
pregnancy pose special stroke risks for
women.
African Americans or Blacks have a much
higher risk of death from a stroke than
3. Race Caucasians do. This is partly because
blacks have higher risks of high blood
pressure, diabetes and obesity.
Close relatives are at greater risk than
non-genetically related family members
of a stroke patient. Diabetes and
4. Heredity
hypertension show familial propensity
thus clouding the significance of pure
hereditary factors.
Increase glucose in blood would cause a
viscose blood that would cause decrease
blood supply to the brain. Diabetes is an
independent risk factor for stroke. Many
5. Diabetes people with diabetes also have high
Mellitus blood pressure, high blood cholesterol
and are overweight. This increases their
risk even more. While diabetes is
treatable, the presence of the disease
still increases your risk of stroke.
6. There's some evidence that strokes are
Socioeconomic more common among low-income people
factors than among more affluent people.
The risk of stroke for someone who has
already had one is many times that of a
person who has not. Transient ischemic
attacks (TIAs) are "warning strokes" that
produce stroke-like symptoms but no
7. History of lasting damage. TIAs are strong
stroke predictors of stroke. A person who's had
one or more TIAs is almost 10 times
more likely to have a stroke than
someone of the same age and sex who
hasn't. Recognizing and treating TIAs
can reduce your risk of a major stroke.
In recent years, studies have shown
cigarette smoking to be an important risk
factor for stroke. The nicotine and
8. Cigarette carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke
People with coronary heart disease or
heart failure have a higher risk of stroke
than those with hearts that work
10. Heart
normally. Dilated cardiomyopathy (an
disease
enlarged heart), heart valve disease and
some types of congenital heart defects
also raise the risk of stroke.
SYMPTOMATOLOGY
PRESEN JUSTIFICATION
SYMPTOMS ABSENT
T
Due to the temporary reduction of
cerebral blood flow and therefore a
1.LOSS OF
CONSCIOUSNE shortage of oxygen to the brain. This
SS leads to light headedness or a "black
out" episode.
2. BROCA’S Due to the vascular lesions of the middle
APHASIA cerebral artery of the dominant
hemisphere, the hemisphere responsible
for mediation language.
This condition usually affects the
extremities equally, but in some cases it
affects one extremity more than the
other. The most common stroke location
3. in affected patients is the posterior limb
HEMIPARESIS of the internal capsule, which carries the
descending corticospinal and
corticobulbar fibers. Other stroke
locations include the pons, midbrain, and
medulla.
Due to the sudden disturbance in the
4.
blood supply to the brain and caused by
HEMIANOPSIA
a blocked blood vessel.
When the blood supply to a part of the
brain is interrupted or severely reduced,
depriving brain tissue of oxygen and
nutrients, brain cells begin to die,
5.
causing damage to the cerebellum,
DYSARTHRIA
which may result to the damage in the
spinal cord and peripheral nerves that
connects the cerebellum to the muscles.