Stroke kills about 170 people every day in Nigeria. This was the assertion of a professor of stroke medicine at the King’s College, London, Anthony Rudd, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday.
He spoke at a lecture organised by the Stephen James’ Stroke Centre of Excellence in collaboration with the SURE-P project.
According to him, 80 persons die per hour globally from stroke.
His words:
“It will get worse if there is no coordinated approach to prevent it. Two-thirds of the Nigerian population is affected by stroke, making it one of the worse affected countries in the world.”
“With the advantage of becoming an affluent country, Nigerians have the disadvantage of going down with hypertension which accounts for 83 per cent of all stroke cases in the country. People usually mistake stroke for heart attack but stroke which is a disturbance of blood supply to the brain is actually a brain attack and can happen to anyone”.
He however noted that 80 per cent of stroke cases can be prevented by avoiding sedentary lifestyle, improving our diet, avoiding cigarette and alcohol and early diagnosis.
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