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(Stroke. 2008;39:2407.)
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

World Stroke Day 2008

"Little Strokes, Big Trouble"

Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc, Editor-in-Chief

From the Stroke Editorial Office, UWO Research Park, London, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence to Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc, Editor-in-Chief, Stroke Editorial Office, UWO Research Park, 100 Collip Circle, Suite 116, London, ON N6G 4X8, Canada. E-mail stroke@lhsc.on.ca

Key Words: hypertension • vascular cognitive impairment

An extract of the first 250 words of the full text is provided, because this article has no abstract.

See World Stroke Day Proclamation Appendix, pages 2409–2420.

World Stroke Day is a day with a message for every day: "Stroke is a treatable and preventable catastrophe." This year and every subsequent year it will be on October 29th. The theme for this year is "Little strokes, big trouble".

During the World Stroke Congress in Vancouver in 2004, a working group was organized to develop a global agenda for stroke. This agenda was subsequently incorporated into a World Stroke Proclamation launched in Cape Town on October 26, 2006 (supplemental video, available online at http://stroke.ahajournals.org).

The 2007 World Stroke Day theme was "Stroke is a treatable and preventable catastrophe and hypertension is its most common and treatable factor". This year the stroke global agenda will be highlighted at the forthcoming 6th World Congress of Stroke, Vienna, September 24 to 27, 2008.

Although each year all aspects of stroke are addressed, a particular theme is selected for emphasis. This year it emphasizes one of the items of the World Stroke Day Agenda: "Recognize, treat and prevent vascular cognitive impairment. Subclinical (silent) strokes occur fives times as often as clinical (obvious) strokes and may affect thinking, mood and personality" (World Stroke Day Proclamation appendix).

By now it has become evident that "silent" strokes are the most common type of strokes. Results from 3 longitudinal studies suggest that 770 000 clinical strokes, about 9 000 000 "silent" infarcts and approximately 2 000 000 "silent" hemorrhages occurred in the United States in 1998.¹ A . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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