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Stroke of Genius - "Heroes" Spread the Word on Stroke Health Risk in WI

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Monday, May 7, 2007   


Experts say stroke is 80 percent preventable, but getting people to adhere 100 percent to the agenda of a prevention plan is no easy task. May is Stroke Awareness Month, and University of Wisconsin Medical School neurologist Dr. Justin Sattin says lifestyle changes are always the hardest.

“Lose weight, and change the way you eat. Change the way you sleep, and change your job. Obviously people can't turn around and do that overnight.”

Local volunteers are being trained as "heroes" to talk about stroke prevention, spreading the topic through neighborhoods, workplaces, and churches. Dr. Sattin notes that smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, and age are also linked to higher stroke risk. He emphasizes that although treatments have improved over the years, a quick medical response increases the chances of surviving.

He has high hopes that the stroke prevention message will especially reach African Americans and Hispanics, who have the highest risk of stroke.

“Perhaps by using these more organic ways of getting the word out, we can reach members of our community who are previously hard to reach and hard to educate about stroke risk.”

Sattin adds that the problem with getting people to think about prevention is that strokes usually have no symptoms until they hit.

“Stroke usually kind of comes out of the blue, and people are feeling just fine and then all of a sudden, it hits them.”

You can find more information about stroke prevention at www.heart.org.



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