Shocking: 73 percent of stroke patients are unaware of symptoms
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According to David Liebeskind, MD, professor of neurology, Director of Outpatient Stroke and Neurovascular Programs and Director of the Neurovascular Imaging Research Core at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, in no other medical condition (probably) is timely treatment as important as it is for stroke. Because the brain is very sensitive to a lack of blood flow, there is a very small window in which to start treatment. He believes, the longer a patient waits for treatment, the more devastating the consequences.”
When researchers asked more than a thousand people how they would react within the first three hours when presented with symptoms like weakness, numbness, difficulty speaking or difficulty seeing, (common symptoms of a stroke), only a third of the people under the age of 45 said they would seek medical treatment. A whopping 73% said they would wait and see if their symptoms improved.
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