Editorial
Please put out that cigarette, grandpa
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In the
industrialised nations stroke is a leading cause of physical disability
and its international significance is accelerating rapidly as life
expectancy increases around the globe.1 But stroke has
been a much neglected Cinderella of cardiovascular disease, for perhaps
at least three reasons. Firstly, in Westernised countries stroke is far
less common as a cause of death than is its sister condition, coronary
heart disease (CHD). Secondly, stroke is so much a disease of the very
old
half of its victims are over the age of 75 yearsand it is only
relatively recently, with the decline in mortality from infectious
diseases in developing countries and from CHD in many developed
countries, that the population at high risk of cerebrovascular disease
(CeVD) has begun to expand rapidly.2 Finally, the lack of
effective medical and surgical treatments for acute cerebrovascular
events means that stroke tends to induce professional as well as
physical
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