Did you know you can have a stroke without knowing it? Here are five signs that you've already had a silent stroke.

“Silent strokes are not uncommon. 10% of people in their 60s are found to have had a silent stroke according to MRI scans and that number goes up to 40% of people in their 80s,” he explains.

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

Silent strokes occur without noticeable symptoms yet still cause permanent brain damage. These undetected events, visible only through brain imaging, increase vulnerability to future strokes and ...

Subtle signs that revealed I was having a silent STROKE 18-year-old Lexi Eddy suffered a stroke on the right side of her brain, causing the left side of her body to go numb ...

Strokes in general occur when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked or ruptured, causing brain damage. Silent strokes can also cause brain damage but may not ...

” The researchers say silent strokes are rare before age 30. Butafter that, their prevalence doubles every 10 years. By the timepeople reach their 70s, one in three has a silent stroke everyyear.

A recent paper from the Framingham Study showed that among stroke-free individuals with an average age of 63 years who were living in the community, 1 in 10 had already had a clinically silent stroke.