Chapter 63 The future of stroke prevention by risk factor modification

摘要: Publisher Summary Future stroke prevention promises to open up new avenues for risk reduction. Stroke is ideally suited as it characterized by a high prevalence of disease, substantial number modifiable factors, therapies that have proven reduce risk, rate disability, and economic burden. Observational epidemiological studies led the identification factors stroke, clinical trials established robust armamentarium preventions first or recurrent stroke. undergoing transformation. The chapter discusses traditional approaches prevention, screening methods future those at cardiovascular disease impact these on reduction, novel how they may organization care, preventive services.