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Public misidentifies strokes
People do not know risk factors or symptoms study says
Strokes
Only 57 percent of 1,066 individuals surveyed by the American Medical
Association were able to identify even one warning sign.
CHICAGO (AP) — Many Americans do not recognize
the signs of a stroke in time to get themselves or others po
tentially lifesaving treatment now available to thwart Amer
ica’s third-leading killer, a new survey found.
The only approved stroke-fighting drug became avail
able less than two years ago, and it must be given within
three hours after a stroke starts — making early detection
and immediate treatment vital.
“The No. 1 reason people don’t get treated is because
they don’t get there in time,” said Dr. Arthur M. Pancioli,
lead author in a new survey published in Wednesday’s Jour
nal of the American Medical Association.
“We’re talking about the leading cause of adult disabil
ity, and yet our public really doesn’t understand it,” said
Pancioli, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at
the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Stroke kills 158,000 people yearly and has left more than
one million Americans disabled to some extent, the Amer
ican Heart Association says.
The AHA said the survey “reinforces information
which has been stated many times — the public is not
knowledgeable enough about stroke, and in Order to
fight stroke, they need to know more about it and what
to do when it happens.”
Only 57 percent of respondents in the survey—which
involved 1,880 people in the Cincinnati area who were typ
ical of stroke sufferers in age, sex and race—knew even on e
warning sign of stroke, the researchers said.
The area is similar to the United States overall in age, sex,
percentage of blacks and economic status, researchers said.
The warning signs of a stroke are a sudden severe
headache; unexplained dizziness, unsteadiness or a fall;
loss of vision, especially in one eye; difficulty speaking or
comprehending; and numbness on one side of the body.
Only 68 percent knew even one risk factor for stroke,
such as high blood pressure; cigarette smoking; heart dis
ease; or a heart-rhythm disturbance called atrial fibrilla
tion, the authors said.
Up to 80 percent of strokes might be delayed or pre
vented by modifying risk factors, Pancioli said, citing pre
vious estimates.
Until 1996, immediate treatment for strokes did not
matter much, because nothing could arrest the rapid
progress of damage caused by clots shutting off blood flow
to the brain, which account for four-fifths of strokes. But in
1996, the clot-dissolving drug tPA became available, giving
physicians their first way to arrest a stroke.
“If anyone sees the warning signs, the only thought
should be to call 911 and get to an emergency room,”
Pancioli said.
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