What questions should I ask my doctor about strokes?

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Nina Solenski
Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Virginia Health System
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The University of Virginia's Department of Neurology is Virginia's foremost research and treatment center for disorders affecting the nervous system. Our neurology department is among the nation's top 20 centers ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We offer the most advanced diagnosis and treatment for strokes, headaches, epilepsy, dementias, movement disorders, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and all other neurological disorders and diseases.

What questions should I ask my doctor about strokes?

Nina Solenski, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, discusses the key treatments for preventing stroke.

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Host: What question should I ask my doctor about strokes?

Dr. Nina Solenski: One of the most important questions is identifying your risk factors and asking the doctor, "Do I have any risk factors?

" It might be that he has identified that you are a little overweight or that you do smoke cigarettes and maybe, during the course of a very busy appointment for some other reason, they may not mention to you that how important it is to stop smoking or continue exercising so that that's very important. So identifying your risk factors and understanding what they are and what you can do right now to fix those are important.

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