A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of your brain is suddenly cut off. This can affect movement, speech, or thinking, and recovery often takes time. It’s a serious medical emergency that needs immediate hospital care, as it can be life-threatening.
The good thing is that nearly 80% of strokes are avoidable, according to research, and while there are risk factors that you can’t change, such as ethnicity, genetic factors such as a family history of certain diseases or conditions that increase the risk of stroke, sex, or older age, prevention, at least to some extent, is possible.
