In the final episode of this dynamic five-part series, Dr. Hunter Hewitt and Dr. Cheryl Bushnell discuss major takeaways from the new guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke.
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Neurology Minute
2024 Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke - Part 5
(upbeat music) - This is The Neurology Minute Daily Briefing. Last month, the new guidelines for primary prevention of stroke was released. I'm sitting down today with Gerald Bushnell to discuss some of the new recommendations released in these guidelines and I was hoping she could help summarize some of the major takeaways from this new paper. - I think it's really important to emphasize that we are trying to close the prevention gap, that there are 80% of strokes that can be prevented and that there is this gap between our current control of risk factors and the potential control of risk factors. So as a whole, all of our guideline recommendations are aimed to close that prevention gap. And really the overarching goal once we close this gap is to protect the brain, to keep people from not only having a stroke but having dementia later in life because these risk factors for stroke overlap completely in most cases with most types of dementia. That is something that we want to coalesce and synthesize with all of the recommendations for protecting the brain and reducing adverse brain health outcomes, which one of them is stroke and others are dementia. So I would say that those are really the main takeaways from our guideline. - Thank you. And for more insight of primary stroke prevention, please read the new 2024 AHA guidelines or listen to our interview with Cheryl Bushnell and our recent neurology podcast episode. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]