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    The global incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is currently around 40 million cases a year. Of that total, cardiovascular disease amounts to 18 million cases, with approximately 6.5 million being strokes. At 9.3 million cases per year, cancer is only slightly more prevalent. The burden of stroke, both on individuals and society, is no less than it is for cancer, but when you look at research funding, healthcare expenditure, and public awareness, much less focus is on stroke. Yet stroke is potentially a highly curable disease. If you have a stroke, if you get to the hospital and are treated in time, it can be reversed with intravenous clot-resolving medication (tPA) or thrombectomy. Leading up to World Stroke Day 2023 (October 29, 2023), Professor Jeyaraj Pandian, President-Elect of the World Stroke Organization and Consultant Neurologist and Principal of the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India, and Philips’ neurovascular business leader Angelique Balguid, PhD, talk abo

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    Keep your stroke risks low with regular checkups and treatment for these conditions if you have them. You can’t control some risk factors, but knowing that they exist may help motivate you to work harder on the ones you can change. Whether your risks are related to changeable factors or are primarily outside of your control, you can benefit your heart and your brain with healthy lifestyle choices. Everyone has an optimal, just opportunity to be healthy. But this is not the reality for many people of

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    Stroke is dangerous and deadly, but you can control and treat several risk factors for it.

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