Once suffering from a stroke, it will not only affect the quality of life of patients, but also bring a heavy economic burden to families and society. Therefore, stroke has five characteristics: high incidence rate, high disability rate, high mortality rate, high recurrence rate and high cost, so it is particularly important to effectively prevent the occurrence of stroke.
Although stroke is dangerous, it is a preventable and controllable disease. As long as everyone pursues a healthy lifestyle, manages the risk factors of stroke and has regular physical examination, the risk of stroke will be greatly reduced. Below, let's take you to understand the stroke.
What is a stroke?
Stroke, also known as stroke and cerebrovascular accident, is an acute cerebrovascular disease, including ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. These diseases are caused by the sudden rupture or blockage of blood vessels in the brain and the inability of blood to flow into the brain. The incidence of ischemic stroke is high, accounting for 60% ~ 70% of the total.
The risk factors of stroke are divided into two categories: one is age, genes, heredity and other factors that cannot be intervened; The other is to be able to intervene. If these factors can be effectively intervened, the morbidity and mortality of cerebrovascular diseases will be significantly reduced. Hypertension is an important and easily changed risk factor for stroke.
How to prevent and treat it?
Stroke is preventable and treatable, and it is particularly important to improve the awareness of prevention and treatment of stroke. Prevention of stroke should be&; Ldquo reasonable diet, proper exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, psychological balance.
Daily life behavior should pay attention to:
1. Eliminate bad habits, such as smoking and drinking.
2. Pay attention to a reasonable diet, achieve a low-salt low-fat low-sugar diet, and drink plenty of water every day.
3. Psychological balance, avoiding emotional excitement, timely and effectively regulating emotions and controlling risk factors of stroke.
4. Moderate exercise, mainly aerobic endurance exercise, such as walking, jogging, swimming, Tai Ji Chuan and other sports, the amount of activity should generally reach moderate intensity, but it is necessary to prevent overwork and overexert.
Rational use of antihypertensive drugs and monitoring arteriosclerosis, the speed and degree of arteriosclerosis development are the first risk factors of stroke, and effective antihypertensive treatment is very important for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
If you have had ischemic stroke before, taking aspirin and other drugs regularly every day can prevent thrombosis. Taking drugs that regulate blood lipids usually thickens and slows blood and reduces the blood volume in the brain.
On the other hand, it will damage blood vessels and form atherosclerotic plaques on blood vessel walls, which will directly lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, we must actively monitor the blood lipid level after stroke and take intervention measures such as diet control and drug treatment to control the blood lipid level within the ideal range.
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol in stroke patients should be controlled below 65438±0.8 mmol or reduced by 50%. Regularly monitor blood lipids, control diet, increase physical exercise and take statins when necessary.
The control of diabetes leads to abnormal lipid metabolism, which is often accompanied by atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Elevated blood sugar will also make the blood in a hypercoagulable state, which is easy to cause a stroke. Diabetes diet, proper exercise, monitoring blood sugar level, regular drug treatment and blood sugar reaching the standard will greatly reduce the occurrence of stroke.
In a word, stroke can be prevented and treated. Early active control of risk factors and standardized stroke treatment can effectively reduce the recurrence rate, disability rate and mortality rate of stroke and improve the prognosis of stroke.