About 80% of strokes are preventable. Here’s how you can help yourself.
A jogger makes her way on the Greenline near Perkins Avenue on April 7, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
To avoid a stroke, Memphis neurologists say you should understand risk factors, make lifestyle changes and not skip routine physicals.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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