Doctors can prevent stroke at any age

A Luke Perry publicist said the 52-year-old actor was under observation at a local hospital after paramedics were called to his home to respond to a stroke patient.

For those of us who grew up looking at him under the name of Dylan McKay in "Beverly Hills 90210", he is still young. Many people ask that someone of his or her age is not too young to have a stroke?

"We find that people under 52 years of age have a stroke for the same reason as people under 75," said Dr. Arbi Ohanian, Medical Director of the Huntington Hospital Stroke Center.

The American Stroke Association reports that nearly 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year.

It is the fifth leading cause of death and one of the leading causes of disability and death.

Ohanian describes the two major categories of moves:

"There are haemorrhagic strokes and blood clot-type strokes," he said. Ischemic stroke is stroke and hemorrhagic stroke is the type of stroke that bleeds. "

Acknowledging the signs quickly can save your life.

The use of the acronym FAST can help you remember.

"F is for the face.If you notice that someone has a sag of the face.A is for the arm.Either they can not lift it, or it falls back," he said. "S is for speech and T is for the moment calling 911."

Another symptom is sudden visual changes.

"We know that you lose about 2 million brain cells per minute during a stroke," Ohanian said. "So we know that every minute counts, we always say time is a brain."

If you think that you or a loved one is suffering from a stroke, the doctors say that you should under no circumstances go to the hospital.

"You still call 911," Ohanian says. "EMTs start working on you right away in the field instead of going into an emergency room somewhere to try to explain what happened. queuing to withdraw your insurance card 911. That's always the recommendation. "

Prevention involves not smoking, exercising regularly, maintaining ideal weight, and staying on top of cholesterol and blood pressure.

"If we could get rid of hypertension, that is to say, high blood pressure, we could reduce the risk of stroke by 50%," he said. -he declares.