Silent Stroke

silent stroke

What is silent stroke? This is not a symptom half dead body, nor about the talk suddenly becomes difficult. ThisĀ  disease’s symptom begins with lowering a person’s thinking ability. But not everyone is suffering from dementia that experience silent strokes.

Through examination of CT scans can be known with certainty that a person suffering from silent stroke. What disease is it? Yes this disease can only be detected certainly by CT scan.

Silent strokes do not show symptoms such as stroke disease in general, only people with intelligence or cognitive decline. Nevertheless, this disease should be aware and should be treated immediately. Patients should still take medication or therapy even though they feel no pain.

In patients with this desease, blocked arteries are the vessels in the brain of a silent area. The picture is like a flood on the outskirts of town, if not treated immediately, and then the floods could spread to the city center also in the end.

The risk factors of this disease are equal to stroke in general. There are two risk factors, first is the uncontrollable factors such as age, gender, and genetics. Second are factors that can be controlled like a bad lifestyle.

Patients with silent stroke besides taking medication should also improve the lifestyle. For example, stop smoking and drinking alcohol, regular exercise also. Through this way, the risk of stroke would drop to 40 percent. So far many people underestimate with this disease because the symptoms are not a pain.

In the elderly, about 10 percent suffered silent stroke, and this condition increases their risk of stroke further. Other factors that increase the risk of silent stroke include hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol.

Stroke trends have changed and started attacking people of productive age, not only those aged over 40 years. So quickly did a CT scan if your thinking ability starts to decline, to ensure silent stroke as early as possible. Get the other post about how to become a psychiatrist.

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