KARACHI, April 4: The Neurology Awareness and Research Trust (NART) has launched an educational informative and awareness campaign to control stroke in the country. Stroke in men is more common while certain families are predisposed, said Dr Farrukh Shahab, adding that a number of patients consider this disease a part of deformity. He stressed that prompt diagnosis and treatment of stroke could significantly improve quality of life.

He further said that the major causes of stroke is smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, diet / hyper cholesterolemia, cardiac disease, hypercoagulable state, alcohol intake and carotid artery stenosis. About 90 per cent cases of stroke are due to genetic reasons, he maintained.—PPI