Hemorrhagic Stroke-Risk Factors And Prevention

In the era where infectious diseases are effectively treated with antibiotics, safer cars are built and more restrictions are placed on firearm possession, but no restrictions are placed on the things people eat, conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease arise as the main causes of morbidity and mortality.

Of those diseases, heart disease and stroke (cerebrovascular disease) are the ones that are rising. The explanation is simple: There is a growing percentage of people who are overweight, which leads to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, and vascular disease.
Of those, cerebrovascular disease (stroke) is the one that leads to more disabilities.

Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) comes in two flavors:

• Ischemic stroke which is the one that results from the interruption of blood flow to any part of the brain (cerebral infarction) due to blood clotting directly inside a damaged artery of the brain or when thrombi that are originated inside the heart (due to arrhythmias or prothrombotic conditions) travel through the arteries and "gets stuck" inside a brain vessel (thrombotic or thromboembolic stroke).

• Hemorrhagic stroke is the one that results from the rupture of any vessel of the brain or any vascular malformation (aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation). It also disrupts blood flow to the brain, increases intracranial pressure, can cause secondary ischemia and have a mass effect on the structures that it damages.

There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke:

• Intracerebral Hemorrhage
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Hemorrhagic stroke accounts for about 17 percent of stroke cases. Stroke kills about 140,000 Americans each year—that's 1 out of every 20 deaths. Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. ... Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. About 610,000 of these are first or new strokes.

Risk factors that can be eliminated:

• Smoking
• Drugs that increase blood pressure (cocaine, amphetamines)

Risk factors that can be treated:

• Isolated Systolic Hypertension
• High Blood Pressure
• Hemorrhagic Disorders

Risk factors that cannot be modified

• Age
• Gender (male)
• Vascular malformations

Francisco Santander
Internal Medicine
Shy Drager Disease Review

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