One in Six women WILL get a stroke

What you'll learn

Identify risk factors for a stroke - those they can control and those they cannot
Control the controllable, be aware of the others
Greatly minimise their chances of a stroke!

Requirements

This is very much a course to try and minimise your chances of having a stroke. Therefore participants should have a willingness to learn and if necessary, change.
Pass on the tips and ideas, thoughts and stories to elderly relatives and friends - or just remember them for yourself!
Appropriate mindset. This course is not a loss leader. It is not a course that will suddenly have a price put on it. The course is free and there is one aim only: to help everyone minimise their chances of suffering from a stroke
As there are links given in the lectures you should be able to use the internet - make sure you have anti-virus software that is up to date!
Access to a PC

Description

THREE SHOCKING STATISTICS!

1. Stroke kills about twice as many women as breast cancer each year. In fact, stroke is the third leading cause of death for women. Stroke also kills more women than men each year. A stroke can leave you permanently disabled

Source: Women's Health

2. Stroke is no friend to women. It kills more women than men and women have more strokes than men.

Source: Stroke Org

3. There are TWO THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND THREE STUDENTS ON THIS COURSE (October 2019) but TWO have finished the course and only THIRTY have done more than 50%

There are MORE risk factors for women than men - but how many are well known? Even if you are aware of the risks do you know how to reduce them?

You have NOTHING to lose in taking this course - and everything to gain. But this course is not just for you but for your family, your friends, your partner, your neighbours - it is for everyone, but especially for women.

What's covered:

Weightloss

Fitness

Nutrition

Yoga

Risk factors

Statins

Let's cut to the chase: the aim of this course is to save your life.

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

Who this course is for:

YOU, your daughter, your sister, your Mother, your Aunt, your female friends….
There is also a lecture that covers men and women - so this course really is for everyone
80-90% of strokes are preventable - make sure you know HOW to prevent a stroke in you and your loved ones
Everyone - young, old, male and, especially, female