One in 20 people who suffers a transient ischemic attack-TIA—has a stroke within seven days, a new study confirms.

        TIAs are like strokes except for one thing—people fully recover from TIAs and there is no permanent brain damage. How dangerous are TIAs? Different studies have come up with different answers.

        The stroke prevention research center unit of the University of Oxford, England, has put all the numbers together.lt turns out that different studies have looked at different populations treated in different places in different ways.

        But when they lumped all major studies together, the researchers find that a person who suffers TIA has more than a one-in-20 risk of having a stroke within a week. That drops to about a one-in-100 risk if a person gets emergency care immediately after a TIA.

        The risk is considerable. A TIA is a medical emergency. People are not very good at recognizing that what they had is a TIA or minor stroke. And even if they do recognize it correctly, they don’t always seek care right away, they said.

        Getting immediate care is essential. The study is telling that if TIAs are diagnosed and treated quickly, it can make really big differences in outcome. A TIA is to stroke what unstable angina is to heart disease.lt need to figure out right away what is wrong and get people on the proper treatment to reduce that risk of stroke—which is highest in the early days after a TIA.

        They said that rapid medical care after a TIA can reduce the risk of stroke by 80%. The message it has been putting out is that a TIA is a medical emergency .There is a high risk far outgoing on a stroke. At least a third of the time, it turns out that a TIA is a minor stroke with complete resolution of symptoms. It should approach TIA the same way as stroke, so the treatment both is the same.

        The symptoms of a TIA are the same as the symptoms of stroke. They include sudden weakness on one side of the body. Inability to move part or all on one side of the body numbness or tingling on one side of the body. Trouble speaking or understanding what others say. Dizziness, staggering, or fainting, sudden loss of strength in the legs, any one of these symptoms may signal TIA.