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STROKE.Is an acute/sudden focal, sometimes global neurological deficit due to a vascular lesion sec
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FIXED Risk frs or markers (factors you can’t control)
Age-risk increases with increasing age, i.e >55 yrs, SINGLE MOST IMPT
Gender-Males at higher risk than females (except very young/old)
Race-Blacks, Hispanics, Latinos & Asians >Whites
Family Hx of stroke & heart d’se
Prior vascular event: stroke/TIA/MI/PE, PVD
SCD, essential thnrombocytosis, Plat adherence, Prots C and S def
High RBCs, fibrinogne,Heparin induced thrombocytopenia, Antithrombin III
Modifiable Risk factors ( which you can control)
Hypertension
Diabetes and/or obesity
Heart d’se- Chronic AF, CAD, LVH, HF
Smoking and Excess Alcohol intake
Hyperlipidaemia-clinical trials show reduction in stroke by 30% with the use of cholesteral reducing agent HMG-CoA reductatse inhibitors
Oral contraceptives and Polycythaemia

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