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How to use the word Stroke in a Sentence? Page #8

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Although there is a genetic component of diabetes, there are modifiable risk factors that can reduce risk of heart attack, stroke and death.

Deborah Greenwood

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As we become better at avoiding dying from infections, heart disease, stroke and even road accidents so we are more likely to live long enough to get cancer.

Peter Sasieni

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There really is a strong association with decrease in blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

Eric Rimm

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Basit Usman was shot in the shoulder and he can't move the right side of his body because of a mild stroke, he has aides who were also badly hit from the encounter.

Esmael Mangudadatu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This has taken stroke therapy to the same place that heart attack therapy is now.

Walter Koroshetz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I flew it by him 25 yards, i have gotten a lot more speed in the offseason. That really bothered him. So the 14th hole is a dogleg right to left. I guess he really hammered one. I had not played the hole before. I just hit a little stock cut. ... He was 11 yards by me. If that's what it takes to stroke his ego, then that's what it takes. Had I known that he was going to make a big deal about it, I would have swung a fraction harder and put it past him.

Phil Mickelson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The classification is not so exact and they don’t discuss these different types of hemorrhagic stroke.

Susanna Toivanen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think the belly guys are going to find it pretty easy, but the guys who have split hands, like Stads, Adam Scott, Timmy, that's different. That's a big change. Putting attached from your belly and moving it away, it's not that big of a change. You lose your security blanket, but it's effectively the same stroke.

Geoff Ogilvy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Theoretically it seems possible, but until we test… we just don’t know, [After a year] the spontaneous recovery period from stroke is essentially over, so if we could reinstitute a state of being more receptive through therapies to drive plasticity, that would improve function and drive recovery.

Marcie Bockbrader

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you are really looking into whole-grain consumption with other diseases, stroke, heart disease and colorectal cancer, whole grains are consistently associated with [a] lower risk of those diseases.

Qi Sun

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I want to fight the Islamic State, although it might be the last thing I do, i know I have 10 years to live before I will start develop dementia or have a stroke so I wanted to do something good.

Peter Douglas

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Stroke is now an even more treatable disease today than it was yesterday, but we can only use them if patients get to the hospital in time.

Jeffrey Saver

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Getting to hospital quickly is particularly important for patients who suffer certain types of stroke, because they can benefit from clot busting drugs, but only if these are given within hospital within 4.5 hours of symptoms starting, we knew from earlier research that people who have a stroke can take a long time to get to hospital and wanted to understand why that was.

Ruth Mellor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The thing about coming in by 911 is that there's pre-notification to the hospital that there's a stroke patient coming in and everything clicks along faster.

Justin Sattina

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You don’t get the benefit of that if you (drive to the hospital), even if it's true that you arrive at the front door a little quicker, it disrupts what’s really an intricate and adjusted process of caring for acute stroke patients.

Justin Sattina

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Every one of us that have a subjective memory complaint will not have a future stroke, by no means is it a 100 percent connection between subjective memory complaints and future stroke.

Robert Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

And their provider may want to make sure their blood pressure is appropriately treated along with any other risk factors that may put them at future risk of stroke.

Robert Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Walter Benjamin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

John Selden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For nearly 40 years Johannes Meintjes has enriched the South African art scene with his personalised works which have the inherent quality of good art - the artist’s genuine feelings and moods can be felt in each brush or palette stroke

Yvonne Steynberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Foster golf club and cemetery - Only one stroke away from each other...

David Helyar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.

John Blofeld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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