Stroke in women – Health priority

Stroke in women – Health priority
Stroke in women – Health priority

In , one in four women will suffer a stroke during their lifetime. More exposed to stroke than men, women risk after-effects which can also be more severe. Pregnancy and menopause expose women to additional risk factors, as do oral contraceptives and hormone therapy.

How can we explain this higher prevalence among women? How to identify a stroke in women? How to prevent it?

  • Professor Pierre AmarencoProfessor of neurology. President of Overcoming stroke. Member of the Academy of Medicine and former head of the neurology department at Bichat hospital, author of the book Stroke, a women’s story published by Calmann-Lévy.
  • Dr. Kossivi Apetseneurologist at the CHR of Atakpame and associate lecturer at theUniversity of Loméau Togo

At the end of the showwe find the nutrition column of Binetou Cheikh Secknutritionist-dietician at Nutrideal dietetic office in Dakar, Senegal.

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