![]() ![]() So how you take care of your heart health in general which is tied very closely to brain health matters over the time of years," Mistry said. ![]() "It is a life long, cumulative risk, if you will. Managing blood pressure and cholesterol and aiming to get about 7-9 hours of sleep per night are prevention tools everyone can take to lower their risk of stroke. While there is progress being made in treating strokes, prevention and avoiding strokes altogether is the best treatment. So you may wake up with these symptoms, but the action plan remains the same. "It hits you like lightning, and so if any of these happen suddenly, you have to call 911 because it’s a time critical event. "The most important thing to remember about strokes is that they happen suddenly," said Mistry, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine in UC’s College of Medicine and a UC Health physician at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute. Mistry said it is important to remember the FAST acronym for stroke (see box below). The University of Cincinnati's Eva Mistry, MBBS, joined Fox 19's morning show to discuss American Stroke Month. College of Engineering and Applied Science. ![]() ![]()
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