SAFE’S WEBSITE ON STROKE PREVENTION NOW AVAILABLE IN FIVE MORE LANGUAGES
A useful repository for reliable and easy to use information on 10 modifiable stroke risk factors translated to Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and French. Brussels, 17/09/2019: A SAFE-owned website on stroke prevention and modifiable stroke risk factors goes...
Podcast #5 – Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular heart rhythm with rapid and irregular beating. It is estimated to increase the risk of stroke 3 to 5-fold and to be associated with around a quarter of all ischaemic strokes. Additionally, AF is associated with more severe...
Podcast #4 – High blood pressure, small vessel disease and stroke
Europe is ageing and stroke is (still) predominantly happening to older people. Cerebral small vessel disease, a condition affecting small blood vessels in our brains is often called ‘the most common aging brain problem that you may have never heard of’. However, it...
Podcast #3 – Three-dimension view on stroke
Stroke can happen to anyone, anytime. We spoke with Hrvoje Jurlina, MD, who has a unique perspective on stroke, being a medical professional, a young stroke survivor and a caregiver who recently lost his father to stroke. Hrvoje Jurlina is the Second Vice-President of...
Podcast #2 – Stroke Prevention
Why is stroke so difficult to prevent even when we know which risk factors are responsible for around 90% of strokes? SAFE had a conversation about it with Dr Edo Richard, neurologist at the Radboud University medical center in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Dr Richard was...
