2023-08-23 16:48:11
Worldwide and also in Mexico, stroke is the leading cause of acquired disability in adults. In the country, 1 in 4 people have suffered from it (according to data provided by the INNECeV) and its incidence represents a cost of care of around 5.6 billion pesos. If you want to know how to identify it and how to prevent it, then we will tell you.
Felipe Padilla Vázquez, medical director of the Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Cerebrovascular Disease, IAP (INNECeV) expressed in an interview for Forbes Mexico that “it mainly affects people over 60 years of age, or those who are smokers, diabetics, hypertensive , with high cholesterol or have a history of doubting that a family member had a heart or brain infarction.
He also added that “for us, it is important to be able to put a medicine that goes into the vein and with that medicine break up the clot, the time limit is four hours because when there is an occlusion of a vein that is very thick we have to put the patient intervention or cerebral catheterization. If the person arrives after four and a half hours, he goes into brain catheterization to avoid disability or death.
Early detection of a stroke is key
When detecting a stroke, it should be noted that the patient loses the movement of half of the body and also if there is loss of the ability to speak and understand. There are three different types of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) that exist: thrombotic, embolic and hemorrhagic.
In this regard, Padilla Vázquez has expressed that “in the hospital it has to be assessed because each patient is different and CVD is mainly divided into two groups: ischemic or heart attack and hemorrhagic, which is normally where the person has continuous headaches, where many times there is a problem or an injury to an artery and this can lead to cerebral hemorrhages and it usually affects young people and also has the symptoms of the chameleon”.
Prevention
To prevent stroke, from the age of 60, patients must undergo different studies, with the aim of identifying the main causes that could generate it. For example, those focused on cholesterol stand out; measure blood pressure; perform a carotid Doppler ultrasound, electrocardiogram and echocardiogram.
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