A professor of stroke medicine at the King’s College, London, Anthony Rudd, has said that there is already an epidemic of cardiovascular disease in Nigeria with 170 people dying of stroke everyday in the country.

Prof Rudd stated this in Abuja yesterday at a lecture organised by the Stephen James’ Stroke Centre of Excellence in collaboration with the SURE-P project, saying that globally, 80 persons die per hour from stroke.

He said, “It will get worse if there is no coordinated approach to prevent it. Two-thirds of the Nigerian population are affected by stroke, making it one of the worse affected countries in the world.”

But the good news is that 80 per cent of stroke cases can be prevented by avoiding sedentary lifestyle, improving our diet, avoiding cigarette and alcohol and early diagnosis.

“With the advantage of becoming an affluent country, Nigerians have the disadvantage of going down with hypertension which accounts for 83 per cent of all stroke cases in the country. People usually mistake stroke for heart attack but stroke which is a disturbance of blood supply to the brain is actually a brain attack and can happen to anyone”.

source: http://leadership.ng/news/396348/170-people-die-stroke-nigeria-everyday

Make I settle here!

Front page is a must.

herald9:
White men always predicting doom for Africa...

170 people die everyday of strokes and I haven't seen one...

I must be in Congo

The Doctor might not be exactly accurate, but he's closer to the truth.
These numbers are pulled using simple statistical Data. It could be higher ,that's adding people that do not have access to hospitals and other infrastructure from which data was pulled from

170 * 365=65050 How come i haven't seen 1 Rubbish Statistic

How this man from London come know say na 170people for Naija dey die of stroke?Him just give percentage to our population.

On a more serious note,there is an increase in stroke cases in the hospitals.More young people are having hypertension nowadays.The thing about stroke is many patients only find out they are hypertensive when they present with the stroke.

When last did you check your blood pressure?

PerfumeRepublik:


The Doctor might not be exactly accurate, but he's closer to the truth.
These numbers are pulled using simple statistical Data. It could be higher ,that's adding people that do not have access to hospitals and other infrastructure from which data was pulled from

Bros leave that thing...

The main disease killing people in Nigeria is poverty.
If the government puts more effort in improving the standard of living of it's people... They wouldn't be dying of imaginary strokes.

Professor of stroke.lmao

Morkavictor:
Professor of stroke.lmao

hahahahaha

Professor of stroke..Wow I wuld love 2 bcome 1

Stroke! Stroke!! Stroke!!!

Nothing we no go hear

This is serious!