{"id":21378,"date":"2023-02-22T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/?page_id=21378"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:02:24","slug":"stroke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/sicklepedia\/stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stroke and cognitive problems are the most common permanent complications of sickle cell disease.1\u00a0\u00a0 Historically 10% of people who had sickle cell disease had a stoke by the time they were 20 years old.\u00a0 Most of those strokes occurred between the age of 6 and 10 years.\u00a0 There was no predictor for stroke they could occur during a severe acute problem such as acute chest syndrome and they could also occur in children who were do relatively well without any warning.\u00a0\u00a0By the age of 40 years 20% of people who had sickle cell anemia (SS) had suffered a stroke and 10% of those suffering from SC disease had a stroke.\u00a0\u00a0In a study at Howard University 4% of children who suffered a stroke died and in a California study 7% of stroke victims with a stroke died2.\u00a0\u00a0Children who have sickle cell disease have about 200 times the risk of stroke compared to children who do not have sickle cell disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SickleCellPatientUndergoingTCD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21393\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SickleCellPatientUndergoingTCD.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SickleCellPatientUndergoingTCD-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/SickleCellPatientUndergoingTCD-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by Medical University South Carolina (MUSC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stroke and cognitive problems are the most common permanent complications of sickle cell disease.1\u00a0\u00a0 Historically 10% of people who had sickle cell disease had a stoke by the time they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21073,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-sickle-cell-disorders","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21378"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21747,"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21378\/revisions\/21747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sc101.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}