The epidemic of stroke in the Asia Pacific region and around the world will become a reality if not taken action to slow the increase in the incidence of stroke. Let's prevent a crisis of stroke in the Asia Pacific region.
Every year, 15 million people around the world suffered a stroke. About 5 million suffer permanent paralysis and more than five million died, which represents 10 percent of total deaths worldwide. In the Asia Pacific in 2004, an estimated number of patients who recovered from a stroke were 4.4 million in Southeast Asia and 9.1 million in the Western Pacific region.
In the same year, the number of people in the Asia Pacific region who had a stroke for the first time reached 5.1 million. This figure is higher than the rate...
