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Survey shows stroke ignorance
10 May 2007 11:26:25
The study by The Stroke Association, assessed 3,155 people in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands and found a distressingly low level of public awareness of stroke risks in Britain.
Only 64 per cent of British respondents were correctly able to define a stroke as a brain attack caused by a blood clot or bleed in the brain, while 83 per cent of Germans could identify the condition.
Joe Koerner, director of communications at The Stroke Association, was troubled by the figures, which included the revelation that just under one fifth of Britons would not take regular exercise, even in the knowledge that it would reduce the risk of a stroke.
"This survey highlights a worrying lack of understanding about how serious a stroke is amongst the British public and the risks that people are prepared to take with their health," he said.
"Even more worryingly, one in four British people said they would not take regular prescription medicine even if they knew it would reduce their risk of stroke."
Hypertension, the single biggest risk factor for stroke, was found to be more common among British respondents than among any of the other nationalities questioned.
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