Cover News Reporter Shao Meng
What is the disease of stroke? What are its harms? How to prevent it? How to evaluate yourself? How to quickly identify? On October 29, the 17th World Stroke Day was the . In order to facilitate the better theme publicity activities in various places, the National Health Commission organized the compilation of the "World Stroke Day" publicity points to answer the above questions. This year's publicity theme is "Identify stroke one second earlier and save the brain and recover well."
National Health Commission requires that all localities should regard the "World Stroke Day" theme publicity activities as an important measure to implement the Healthy China Action, widely mobilize all sectors of society, promote the publicity of stroke prevention and control knowledge, and create a good social atmosphere for stroke prevention and control. Carry out various forms of thematic publicity activities to improve the accessibility of information dissemination, improve mass participation, and promote the extensive, in-depth and solid implementation of publicity activities.
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What is stroke ?
Stroke commonly known as " stroke ", is an acute cerebrovascular disease. It is a group of diseases that cause brain tissue damage due to sudden rupture of blood vessels in the brain or blockage of blood vessels, causing blood to flow into the brain.
According to reports, stroke has the characteristics of "five highs" of high incidence, high recurrence rate, high disability rate, high mortality rate and high economic burden. It is one of the main chronic non-communicable diseases that threaten the health of our country's national health. It can cause limb paralysis, language disorders, dysphagia , cognitive impairment, , mental depression, etc., seriously affecting the quality of life of patients and posing a huge burden to the family and society.
Doctors provide rehabilitation treatment for patients with hemiplegia after stroke. Xinhua News Agency reporter Weng Xinyang Photo by
What are the dangers of stroke?
"China Stroke Prevention and Treatment Report 2020" shows that stroke is the primary cause of death and disability in adults in my country. The prevalence of stroke in my country rose from 1.89% in 2012 to 2.58% in 2019. Data from the "China Stroke Report 2020" released this year showed that in 2019, 3.94 million new strokes were reported in my country, with 28.76 million stroke patients and 2.19 million deaths.
The National Health Commission’s Stroke Prevention and Control Engineering Committee has organized and conducted screening and intervention work on stroke risk factors for people over 40 years old in 200 regions across the country for more than 10 consecutive years, and has implemented a simple and easy-to-use stroke "8+2" risk score. Among them, "8" refers to 8 major stroke risk factors, namely hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, , smoking, atrial fibrillation, overweight or obesity, lack of exercise, and family history of stroke; "2" refers to stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).
How to prevent and treat stroke?
According to reports, stroke can be prevented and cured. Risk factors that can be intervened include hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, atrial fibrillation, smoking, alcohol intake, unreasonable diet, overweight or obesity, lack of exercise, psychological factors, etc. The prevention of stroke should focus on the " four cornerstones of health " with reasonable diet, moderate exercise, quitting smoking and drinking, and psychological balance. Develop a healthy lifestyle and regularly screen for stroke risk factors, so as to achieve early detection, early prevention, early diagnosis and early treatment, so as to effectively prevent and treat stroke.
Specifically, daily life behaviors should be light, moderately enhance physical exercise, overcome bad habits, such as quitting smoking and drinking, avoiding sitting for a long time, preventing overwork, paying attention to climate change, maintaining mood stability, conducting regular health check-ups, and preventing and treating problems early.
In addition, citizens aged 30 and above will undergo blood pressure testing at least once a year to increase the awareness of hypertension. Once hypertension is diagnosed, we should actively cooperate with the medical and health institutions in the region to carry out the health management of hypertensive patients .
How to quickly identify stroke?
"Stroke 120" formula is a strategy suitable for the public to quickly identify strokes and immediate action: "1" means "seeing an asymmetric face"; "2" means "check whether both arms have unilateral weakness"; "0" means "listen (zero) to listen to the speech clearly".
Experts said that if the patient is suspected of having a stroke through the above three steps, you can call the emergency number 120 immediately.
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