YOUR HEALTH | Understanding what it means to have a stroke and how you can avoid it – The Young Witness

Q: Can I prevent stroke? How is it treated?
Any sudden event that causes an insult to the brain is a stroke and can manifest in different ways.
During an ‘insult’ to the brain, injury can occur due to a lack of blood flow, which means oxygen and nutrients aren’t getting to certain areas of the brain.
This is called an ischemic stroke and is the most common type we see.
When there is actual bleeding into the brain, it’s a haemorrhagic stroke, which we see in about 15 per cent of stroke pat…

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