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And welcome back to The Factor
about medical conditions
tonight. Despite what you may
think, strokes are not exclusive
to certain age range. Older
people. Is that what you think?
It can happen to someone in
their 20s? My next guest
explains why Doctor Daniel Lee
from Arch Point Pain Institute
joins us here on The Factor
Dogg's daughter Corey Broadus,
who's 24 years old, suffered a
stroke. She described it as
severe. The, uh, the question is
having a stroke and we've heard
cases of other young people
having strokes. That's a that's
correct, Isaiah. It's very scary
. And, uh, yeah, it really puts
some things in perspective. I
again, we don't know, lots of
details. Uh she just posted
about this on her Instagram and
that's where we're learning
about this. What we do know
Isaiah, is that she has a
history of lupus, which is an
autoimmune disorder. And what
that does is it causes
inflammation throughout in the
body. And it also inflames the
an inflammation of the blood
vessels, those can start to
leak. And when you have a leak
you can develop and especially
if it's in the brain, you can
get a stroke that way. And we
call it a hemorrhagic stroke.
Right It's not a common causes
of strokes. However, we do see
that and it does as lupus does
put you at a two fold increase
to potentially develop a stroke.
Uh, in, uh, folks that have that
disorder. And so that's what
a lot of information at the
moment, Isaiah. And what we know
is that this was a form of a
stroke. And what she described
as severe. I did notice that she
had a mask on. And so she may be
having some significant facial
asymmetry. She may be having
significant arm or leg weakness
as well, and maybe even
difficulty with speech. So those
are all symptoms of strokes as
acronym Fast which is facial
asymmetry. ARM weakness, speech
difficulties. And the last is
time. That's the most crucial
thing about this Isaiah, is that
folks, if they develop any of
these symptoms need to get to a
hospital immediately. Now we
know and obviously strokes are
not typical with young people.
But we know, like many athletes,
they're out in the heat and they
get what we call a heat stroke.
standard stroke that many of us
know? Sure. Isaiah. Sure. Stroke
in general is the same or very
similar to saying a infarct. An
saying there's a no blood supply
to a specific area. Right? We
get folks get myocardial
infarction, which is also
considered a heart attack. Heart
attack is where you don't get
blood to a specific blood area
in your heart that needs the
blood, right? Same thing happens
in your brain if you don't get a
blood supply to your brain.
Whether it be because of a clot
or whether it be because of a
bleed in your brain, that can
also cause a stroke. So it's all
very similar. It just means that
there is no blood supply. High
blood contains all the nutrients
. It contains oxygen, everything
that that body or that organ
specifically needs. And when it
doesn't reach to that area, that
is where we call a stroke, a
heart attack, a heat stroke,
anything of those natures. And
people can look for in case they
are not aware they're having a
stroke? What are some of those
signs that that would tell you,
you know, get to the hospital,
get to your medical care
provider as soon as possible?
Yeah So one of the acronyms is
fast as we talked about, which
is the facial asymmetry, arm or
leg weakness, face, um,
difficulties with vision is
another one. Um, blurry vision.
Vision or sometimes folks
weird sensation going down the
arm. That's very acute. Or it
just comes on suddenly we, um,
balance and weakness. Uh, and
those are all symptoms that you
want to be looking for. And uh,
be aware of in most important
thing is Isaiah getting to the
hospital because there are
medications, there are clot
blood busting medications that
can bust those clots in those
potentially reverse, uh, some of
the long tum side effects that
you may have otherwise. And I
would assume obviously, we know
be deadly as well? Oh for sure.
Yeah. Strokes are very common
causes of deaths in, uh, America
here and all over the world. And
so, um, and the other thing is
they do cause long terme side
effects as well, whether it be
weakness, facial asymmetry, we,
difficulties in eating. Those
are all things that we see,
especially in the hospital,
especially in the rehab hospital
need lots of therapy, lots of
reeducation, retrain of those
nerves. Uh that need to begin
again after this sort of
incident happens. All right.