Stroke is an emergency in clinical medicine, and it can cause permenant damage of the nurves, complications, even death. In United States and European, it is the leading cause of adult disability. It is the second big cause of death throughout the world, and may soon become the first place cause of death. High blood pressure (hypertension), advanced age, TIA (transient ischemic attack) or previous stroke, diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking and atrial fibrillation, those are all the risk cause of stroke. And high blood pressure is the most important risk factor of stroke.

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