Is stroke hereditary?

Stroke is a very serious disease for people's health. It mainly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, causing great damage to their lives. In addition, the mortality rate of stroke is very high, and it is easy to leave sequelae and endanger the life of the patient. Although this disease is quite serious, it is difficult to trace its cause. For example, is cerebral stroke hereditary?

1. Stroke is a disease. In fact, stroke is not a disease, it is a general term or common name for acute cerebrovascular disease. In fact, stroke is a type of disease, including six diseases: cerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, cerebral thrombosis, lacunar infarction and mini-stroke (transient ischemic attack). The first two are hemorrhagic strokes, and the last four are ischemic strokes.

2. Only middle-aged and elderly people suffer from stroke. Although more than 90% of strokes occur in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old, young people can also suffer from strokes, especially subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is not uncommon in young people. Children occasionally have strokes.

3. People with normal or low blood pressure will not suffer a stroke. People with high blood pressure are indeed more likely to suffer from stroke, but patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis with normal or low blood pressure can also suffer from stroke due to the severe narrowing of the cerebral artery lumen and other factors. In particular, low blood pressure can lead to slower cerebral blood flow, making ischemic stroke more likely to occur.

4. Thin people rarely suffer from stroke. Thin people can also get strokes, but they are less likely to get strokes than fat people.

5. If you suffer a stroke, you will be disabled if you don’t die. This was the case in the past, but in recent years, due to the continuous advancement of medical technology, the cure rate of stroke has increased significantly, the 5-year survival rate after stroke has reached about 62%, the average life expectancy has reached 66 years, and the sequelae have been greatly reduced.

6. Stroke can only be treated with conservative medical treatment. This was true in the past, but in recent years surgical treatments have been developed both at home and abroad, with good results. For ischemic stroke, extracranial artery bypass grafting, omentum intracranial transplantation, vertebral artery decompression, etc. are performed; for hemorrhagic stroke, the surgical indications are patients with moderate bleeding who have not responded well to conservative medical treatment. There are two main types of operations: craniotomy to remove hematoma and stereotactic surgery to remove hematoma.