Stroke is a worldwide leading cause of death and disability

Reality: Stroke is largely preventable by addressing various vascular risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure, Atrial fibrillation or irregular heart rhythm, high cholesterol levels, smoking etc

Reality: upto 30% of strokes occur in young patients and many of them are caused by "traditional risk factors" like high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking etc.

Reality: Stroke affects the brain and hence is called a brain attack. 

Reality: Stroke requires treatment emergently. TIME IS BRAIN. 

Stroke thrombectomy is a powerful treatment for stroke and can offer very good benefits. The time window for these patients is 24 hours or more sometimes

Reality: IV tPA the clot busting medication has a 1-3% chance of significant bleeding in the brain

Stroke thrombectomy has a complication rate of <10%.

Reality: The benefits offered by these interventions far more outweigh the complications.

A well trained Stroke clinician can carefully select the patients who are eligible for these interventions and avoid the complications