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New Statistics show that 1 in 10 middle aged people have had what are referred to as “silent strokes”- strokes that are basically undetected but do cause damage and indicate a possibly deadly condition.
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Routine brain scans in a group of middle-aged people showed that 10 percent of them had suffered a stroke without knowing it, raising their risk for further strokes and memory loss, U.S. researchers said.
People with atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heart beat in people over 65, had more than twice the rate of these silent strokes, they said.
Silent cerebral infarctions or SCIs are brain injuries caused by a blood clot that interrupts blood flow to the brain.
…What they found was that atrial fibrillation more than doubled the risk of silent stroke. In atrial fibrillation, the heart’s two upper chambers do not pump effectively enough to empty properly, leaving blood to pool and raising the risk of blood clots.
Three percent to 5 percent of people over 65 have this problem.
The study could not determine whether treating atrial fibrillation would reduce the risk of silent stroke, the researchers said.
Other factors that increased the risk of silent stroke included high levels of blood homocysteine, a sulfur-containing amino acid found in the blood; carotid artery disease; high blood pressure and especially high systolic blood pressure — the top number in the blood pressure reading.
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What this means for most of use is that it is really important to have your blood pressure checked regularly and that you also do the things that are know to help alleviate these risk factors- good diet and exercise. Hmm, it always seems to come back to good diet and exercise, doesn’t it?
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