Characterizing TIA and stroke symptomatology in a population-based study: implications for and diagnostic value of FAST-based public education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urgent medical treatment is crucial after stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), but hindered by extensive prehospital delays. Public education campaigns based on FAST (Face-Arm-Speech-Time) have improved response after major stroke, but not minor stroke and TIA. We aimed to provide strategies to improve public education on a national level, by characterizing TIA and stroke symptoms in a population-based cohort, and extrapolating findings to the general Dutch population.

Methods

We included all patients with first-ever stroke or TIA from 2002-2016 in the population-based Rotterdam Study (N = 17,931). We determined the prevalence of focal neurological symptoms and their combinations by event severity (i.e., TIA, minor stroke [National Institutes of Health Stro

SUBMITTER: Claus JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11657979 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature