Risk Factors
Symptoms
Complications
Description
100
What is a common risk factor for stroke, heart disease, and cancer?
Smoking
100
A sudden what might be a sign of stroke?
headache
100
Stroke is the __ most common cause of death
third
100
A stroke is what type of injury?
Brain
200
What is a common disease related to stroke victims?
Diabetes
200
A persons face might feel
numb
200
_____ skills can be affected greatly by stroke
motor
200
Strokes occur because...?
Blood flow to brain is interrupted.
300
___________ is a contributing factor of CVD in Austria and Greece but not Japan
Obesity
300
A motor skill affected by stroke
walking
300
Name several possible complications
problems with thinking, awareness, attention, learning, and judgment, and memory
300
Cerebrovascular Disease refers to...?
Disorder of blood vessels
400
These harmful behaviors can lead to stroke.
Lack of excercise and substance abuse
400
A stroke victim might have trouble
speaking
400
Most common complication for stroke victims
speech
400
Name 2 types of cerebrovascular disease
Ischaemic Stroke, Transient ischaemic attack, Subarachnoid haemorrage, Vascular Dementia
500
What might stroke victims have a history of?
Transient Ischemic attacks
500
Symptoms vary depending on...?
What part of the brain a stroke is occuring in
500
Persent of stroke victims that have a chance of having another stroke within five years
75%
500
Name a reason blood flow can be interrupted.
blood vessel in brain ruptures
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