Avoid increasing young strokes, stimulating eating habits, and excessive exercise
Oct 24, 2024
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Globally, stroke is known to kill one person every 10 seconds. In Korea, according to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of stroke patients last year was 653,409, of which 88,827 were under the age of 55, accounting for more than 12%. In the case of relatively young people in their 30s and 40s, their alertness to stroke may be weak, and care should be taken because stroke can occur when young if the family has suffered a stroke at a relatively young age under 60.
Park Jung-hoon, director of the Department of Neurology at Incheon Himchan General Hospital, explained, `The cause of stroke is arteriosclerosis of cerebrovascular, and hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia are the three major risk factors for stroke.' `Some people take medicine when they have high blood pressure and manage their blood pressure consistently, so as their eating habits become westernized rather than cerebral hemorrhage, the number of people with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and obesity increases, and blood vessels are more often blocked.'
◇ Increased chronic diseases and extreme exercise among young people are also the cause
Stroke is largely divided into cerebral infarction caused by clogging of cerebrovascular vessels and cerebral hemorrhage caused by bursting. The symptoms are similar, but cerebral infarction is a disease caused by arteriosclerosis, in which blood vessels harden and narrow, or embolism, in which blood clots move around in blood vessels, blocking blood vessels.
Brain bleeding causes blood vessels to burst and bleed as the blood vessels to the brain weaken. If the blood vessels in the brain are blocked or burst, the blood supply is not smooth, and 2 million brain cells are damaged per minute, which is a major aftereffect.
Young people often enjoy spicy, salty, and sweet stimulating foods, which can lead to chronic diseases at an early age and increase the incidence of stroke. Smoking and heavy drinking are also important causes of stroke because they adversely affect vascular health. In particular, smoking is known to be the cause of the disease in 45% of young male stroke patients. Smoking itself is a problem, but smoking acts as a risk factor for high blood pressure, heart disease, and other chronic diseases, increasing the risk of stroke.
In addition, excessive exercise, such as sports and leisure, has a high risk of stroke. Causes cerebral infarction due to cerebral artery dissection. Cerebral artery dissection is a tear in the walls of blood vessels such as carotid or vertebral arteries, and 10% to 25% of young stroke patients are caused by cerebral infarction due to dissection of the cerebral artery. It can occur during activities in which the neck and head move rapidly, such as golf, swimming, yoga, excessive stretching, massage that severely breaks the neck, falls, and traffic accidents.
◇If an antecedent symptom occurs, visit the hospital immediately...Prevention, such as improving eating habits, is important
The longer the coping time for stroke, the higher the risk of death or serious sequelae, so it is very important to take immediate action when symptoms occur. Stroke is characterized by sudden appearance, and precursor symptoms appear as short as 24 hours in water. I have paralysis on one side of my body or face Major precursor symptoms include paralysis, speech disorders that are difficult to understand or understand words, visual impairment that darkens one side of the field of view as if a curtain was drawn in the eye, and an abnormality in equilibrium that makes it difficult for the body to lean to one side and center. In some cases, it improves again over time, so it can be left unattended, and if these symptoms are repeated, the cerebrovascular vessels are very likely to be completely blocked, so you should visit a hospital immediately after the occurrence.
Young people have relatively good symptoms and physical recovery after stroke compared to the elderly, but after-effects and recurrences often occur, so if you have frequent headaches, you need to be tested. Even if there are no symptoms, it is recommended that people aged 40 or older be checked steadily, and if you have a family history, you should be tested every one to two years.
To prevent stroke, improvement of eating habits should precede. It is recommended to reduce sodium-rich foods, spicy and sweet irritating foods, etc. because they harm blood vessel health, and to eat a lot of vegetables or fruits high in dietary fiber. In order not to become obese, it is necessary to maintain an appropriate weight through steady exercise and to quit smoking.
Park Jung-hoon, director of the Department of Neurology at Incheon Himchan General Hospital, said, `It is important not to miss the golden time because stroke treatment is a battle against time.' `There are reports that the risk of stroke is higher in spring or fall when the daily temperature difference is large, and if the temperature difference is large, the relaxation and contraction of blood vessels are rapidly repeated, affecting the occurrence of stroke"It is a disease that always requires attention.
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