Key result
Optimizing comprehensive stroke prevention strategies substantially cuts stroke incidence.
Why the study?
Strategies for primordial, primary, and secondary stroke prevention are not being optimally implemented despite evidence of effective interventions.
Suboptimal implementation of proven stroke prevention strategies persists; leaves open the design of targeted interventions to realize substantial gains.
Clinical trials and observational studies provide evidence for a wide range of interventions of proven value for preventing a first or recurrent stroke. The available data indicate that strategies for primordial, primary and secondary stroke prevention are not being optimally implemented. Although specific estimates are difficult to calculate, the impact of improving the use of the wide array of effective stroke preventive interventions would be substantial.
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Larry B. Goldstein (2008) conducted a review in Stroke. Stroke preventive interventions was evaluated. Improving the implementation of primordial, primary, and secondary stroke prevention strategies would have a substantial impact on reducing stroke incidence.
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