Ischemic Stroke Research Paper

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Stroke is one of the main cause of death in the developed world. In United States stroke is the fourth cause of mortality. Between 20% and 30% of stroke patients is dying, and 55% of survivors have health problems.
The research showed that women have higher risk of stroke than men. Also they found that black people have more risk factor of stroke than white one. So it’s mean that stroke has many risk factors such as gender and rice. There are two types of stroke, hemorrhage and ischemic stroke. Hemorrhage is easy to detect by doing CT non-enhanced. A symptoms of ischemic stroke can be changing according to source. The ischemic stroke patient can feel dizzy or have Headache or loss of feeling on one side of his face or in one arm or leg

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