""Studies show heart attacks and strokes can increase this time of year which can make the holiday season an especially dangerous time of year for the millions of Americans with heart disease. Holiday stress, combined with cold weather, increases the risk of heart attacks."

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""Studies show heart attacks and strokes can increase this time of year which can make the holiday season an especially dangerous time of year for the millions of Americans with heart disease. Holiday stress, combined with cold weather, increases the risk of heart attacks."

Source: CBS Philly December 21st 2016

80-90% of strokes are preventable!

Hold on to that thought.

Know when you are at greatest risk - and why.

Then take action.

Arm yourself with the knowledge - then reduce your risk. Control the controllable factors. Take the tests. Monitor the results.

Christmas can be a time of stress. Over-consumption of fatty, sugary food and alcohol. weight gain. Increased blood pressure. All these are stroke risk factors. This course concentrates on alcohol and stroke risk. Odd though this may seem - this course (which will always be free!) makes the ideal Christmas present for everyone. Anyone can get a stroke - and at Christmas your risks just might increase. This course will help prevent such an awful event happening - and applies equally to ALL holiday times!

Strokes maim, strokes kill - all year round.

80-90% are preventable remember, through diet, exercise, fitness, nutrition, quality sleep etc.

This course focuses in particular, on alcohol.

The course includes a workbook:

Chapter 1 What causes TIAs?

• What is a TIA?

• Why it is important

• What are the causes of a TIA?

• How is a TIA diagnosed?

• Treatment for a TIA

• Symptoms of a ministroke

• Reducing the risk

• Medication and side effects

Chapter 2 Studies

• Studies

• Residual symptoms of a TIA

• Role of brain imaging in TIA

• TIA and common mimics

Chapter 3 Return to TIAs

• TIA facts

• Symptoms of a stroke

• How a TIA is diagnosed

• Therapy

Chapter 4 Stroke quiz

(A link to a site that has a) stroke quiz

Chapter 5 Comments

Comments about TIAs

Chapter 6 Return to risk factors

Risk factors

Chapter 7 Chameleons, panic attacks and TIAs

• Could the TIA be a panic attack?

• Anxiety or mini stroke

• Panic attack v heart attack

Chapter 8 Food

Foods increasing stroke risk

Chapter 9 Dr Malcolm Kendrick

Very interesting extracts from his blog, about strokes

Chapter 10 Risk calculator

Links and explanations about various stroke risk calculators

In conclusion

Stressing that this is a WORKBOOK

PS

• Anyone looking for the IDEAL Christmas gift for their family
• Those looking forward to Christmas but worried about the health implications of days of feasting and drinking
• Those worried about a relative who does not appear to be looking after their health
• Everyone - because anyone anywhere, can get a stroke!
• Anyone who 'overdoes it' at Christmas

Course content

• Oxford School of Learning Diploma
  • About the Diploma
• Introduction
  • About the lecturer
  • Introduction
  • Costs of strokes
  • Alcohol studies
  • Light and moderate drinking
  • Going through the risk factors again
  • Statin side effects
  • Dehydration and other problems of stroke
  • Alcohol guidelines
  • How can we cut down?
  • Depression
  • The studies
  • Storytelling
  • Strategies to reduce drinking
  • Non-alcoholic beer
  • Some more studies
  • Stroke is a major killer
  • The effects of a stroke
  • The takeaway message
  • Statins or lifestyle changes?
  • A gift at Xmas
• An Important Revision Section!
  • Lecture 1
  • Lecture 2
  • Lecture 3
  • Lecture 4
  • Lecture 5
  • Lecture 6