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Today is #WorldStrokeDay.

This is how you can prevent stroke:

🚭 Quit smoking
🍺 Limit alcohol consumption
🛑 Control high blood pressure and high cholesterol
✅ Manage diabetes
🏋🏾‍♀️ Watch your waist and weight
🍏 Eat healthy
🏃🏾‍♂️ Exercise regularly 30 minutes a day

#BeatNCDs
The most common symptom of a #stroke is sudden weakness of the face, arm, or leg, most often on one side of the body.
People experiencing these symptoms should seek medical care immediately bit.ly/2OkbfVe

#WorldStrokeDay

Tobacco use is the second leading cause of cardiovascular diseases, after high blood pressure bit.ly/2OOoydy

#WorldStrokeDay
@WHOAFRO @WHOEMRO @WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO @pahowho The global tobacco epidemic kills more than 7 million people each year - of which close to 900,000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke #NoTobacco🚭bit.ly/2OOoydy

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9 out of 10 people around the 🌏🌍🌎 lives in places where air quality exceeds WHO guideline limits.

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The lack of visible smog is no indication that air is healthy.

Across the 🌍, cities & villages are seeing #AirPollution 😷 exceed the average annual values recommended by WHO’s air quality guidelines.

Check how safe the air you breathe is: breathelife2030.org
DYK: 1/3 of deaths from:
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This is an equivalent effect to that of smoking 🚬, & much higher than the effects of eating too much 🧂.

Health effects of air pollution are serious: bit.ly/2q9Zcfj
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Have you checked out our new #GlobalIndexMedicus?

The index provides access to important biomedical & public health literature published in low- and middle-income countries bit.ly/2q6sFu2
@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO 📚#GlobalIndexMedicus provides access to scientific literature that is not included in major international databases & complements the body of knowledge necessary to carry out thorough systematic reviews and in-depth evidence research

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@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO 📚African Index Medicus
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There is something ghoulish about too much sugar
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SUGAR intake is one of the key risk factors in the development of #diabetes type 2 bit.ly/2zTcWSO

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@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO This is not one of those #HappyHalloween disguises
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Tobacco is deadly in any form or disguise ☠️ bit.ly/2Ddu7A2

Say #NoTobacco🚭
@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO Do you know what's scary? No, not 👻🧟‍♂️

A can of soda can contain about 8.5 teaspoons of sugar.
WHO recommends consuming no more than 12 teaspoons of sugar per day bit.ly/331aIf6

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Today is #WorldStrokeDay

Here are four essential facts about stroke:

1. Stroke is what occurs when blood flow to the brain is obstructed (usually by a blood clot) and the cells in the brain begin to die, or when there is bleeding in the brain.
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