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A stroke is a medical condition in which blood flow to a part of the brain is reduced or blocked causing cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functioning properly.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Stroke | Causes | Ischemic (blockage) and hemorrhagic (bleeding) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Complications | Persistent vegetative state | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Deaths | 6.3 million (2015) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Diagnostic method | Based on symptoms with medical imaging typically used to rule out bleeding | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Differential diagnosis | Low blood sugar | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Frequency | 42.4 million (2015) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Medication | Alteplase, tenecteplase (if ischemic) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Other names | Cerebrovascular accident (CVA), cerebrovascular insult (CVI), cerebrovascular lesion (CVL), brain attack, cerebral infarction | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Prognosis | Average life expectancy 1 year | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Risk factors | Age, high blood pressure, alcoholism, tobacco smoking, obesity, genetics, high cholesterol, diabetes, sleep apnea, previous TIA, end-stage kidney disease, atrial fibrillation | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Specialty | Neurology, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, interventional neuroradiology | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Symptoms | Facial drooping, inability to walk, move, or feel on one side of the body, problems understanding or speaking, dizziness, loss of vision to one side | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | Treatment | Thrombolysis, thrombectomy (if ischemic), supportive care, surgery (if hemorrhagic) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stroke | is a | medical condition in which blood flow to a part of the brain is reduced or blocked causing cell death | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | transient ischemic attack | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | medical emergency | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | stroke that does not have any outward symptoms | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | second leading cause of death in people under 20 with sickle-cell anemia.Embolic strokeAn embolic stroke refers to an arterial embolism | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | embolic stroke of undetermined source | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | second leading cause of death in people under 20 with sickle-cell anemia | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | leading cause of disability | 0.90 | text |
| Stroke | is a | archaic | 0.90 | text |
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