Anyone could be at risk

Mar 10 2008 by Emma Pinch, Liverpool Daily Post

EVERY year, an estimated 150,000 people in the UK have a stroke. Most people affected are over 65, but anyone can have a stroke, including children and even babies.

A stroke is the third most common cause of death in the UK, and caused when the blood supply to the brain is cut off.

It is most commonly caused by a blockage: either a cerebral thrombosis – a clot in an artery carrying blood to the brain – or a cerebral embolism, where a blood clot, air bubble or fat globule forms in a blood vessel somewhere else and is carried in the bloodstream to the brain.

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