How Silent Strokes Go Unrecognized
Every year, more than 500,000 U.S. citizens are diagnosed by their doctors as having had a stroke. This makes strokes one of the leading health problems in the country. But even though many major strokes are diagnosed, there are a huge number of silent strokes that are occurring completely below the radar.
A lot of of these mini-strokes remain undiagnosed because people are unaware that it’s happened. We often think of strokes as a dramatic event that immediately causes signs such as paralysis, being unable to talk, etc. Most so called silent strokes, however, do not trigger such symptoms.
A great deal of the time, the first clue that a person may have had a silent or mini-stroke occurs as they’re taking medical tests for some seemingly unrelated problems. In fact, a research study last year revealed that as many as many as 10 percent of people with an average age of 62 had evidence of a min-stroke according to their MRI brain scan.
A disturbing trend for the past 10 years or so, is that the number of incidences of these silent strokes seem to be happing at younger ages. It’s probably to be expected as certain other diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure are occurring in adults at earlier ages as well. The extremely disconcerting thing about the rising number of silent strokes is that many have them and don’t even realize it because they have no symptoms.
As a matter of fact, in many cases the sole proof that a silent or mini-stroke has even occurred is the results of the MRI brain scan. And such brain scans are not a part of most people’s annual checkup.
The truly sad part about this state of affairs is that many strokes are preventable simply by following sensible health guidelines on ways on how to lower high blood pressure.
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