Article type: Letter to Editor
Article
title: World stroke day and cerebro-cardiovascular diseases
Journal: Journal of Acute Disease
Year: 2020
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari
Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
October 29 is considered World Stroke Day. This date was established in 2004 at the World Stroke Congress in Vancouver, Canada. But, only in 2006 under the direction of Vladimir Hachinski who is a Canadian clinical neuroscientist and researcher based at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University, the date was included in the World Stroke Proclamation. In the same period, the International Stroke Society and the World Stroke Federation combined to form the World Stroke Organization, and since that merger, the management of World Stroke Day is charged by World Stroke Organization. Stroke is among the three most common causes of disability and mortality in the world. Brazil has one of the highest Framingham risk scores of the Latin American countries; women with 11.8% (moderate risk) and 24.7% for men (high risk). However, knowledge about stroke is still scarce, even in a population with levels of formal education above the national average and in a city where the annual promotion of Stroke Awareness Campaigns has taken place for almost a decade.
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DOI
10.4103/2221-6189.283896
Citation
Rissardo JP, Caprara AL. World stroke day
and cerebro-cardiovascular diseases. J Acute Dis 2020;9:134-5.