Question

Global Issues and Trends in Healthcare

Answer the essay question below and give your reasons and examples.

Create a brief disease profile on the disease known as Stroke (cerebrovascular disease). What sources provide trusted background information about the symptoms of the disease and ways to prevent and treat it? What sources provide good statistical information about how many people worldwide are affected by the condition? What can academic publications contribute to your profile?

Answer 1

STROKE: Stroke occurs when there is an ischemia {inadequate blood supply].to a part of brain orhemorrhage into brain that resultsin death of brain cells .The "Brain attack "is the word used for stroke.

SYMPTOMS/ETIOLOGY: risk factors of stroke canbe divided into two

1.nonmodifiable risk factors

2.modifiable risk factors

1. non modifiable risk factors include age ,gender,race and family history.strok risk increases with age,strokeare common in men. but more women die because of strok than men.african americanshave the higher risk than white.family history of stroke has also a higher risk.

2.modifiable risk factors; hypertention,heart diseases,smoking,excessivealcohol consumption,obesity,sleep apnea,metabolic syndrome,lack of physical exercise,poordiet,and drugabuse.

PREVENTION:Reduce salt andsodium intake

maintain a normal body weight

maintain a normal blood pressure

increase level ofphysical exercise

avoid tobacco chewing and smoking

limit the consumption of alchohol

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TREATMENT:

control of hypertention and diabetic mellitus

do treatement of underlying cardiac problem

Anticoagulation therapy for the patient with arterial fibrillation

platelet inhibitors

surgical intervention for aneurysms

carotid enderactomy

?stending of carotid atery

trans luminal angioplasty

extracranial, intracranial bypass

DRUG THERAPY: Aspirin,clopidogrel,ticlopidine warfarin.etc

INCIDENCE:700000 persons in united states and 50000 in canada suffer from stroke.