Is it common to suffer from a second stroke?

Is it common to suffer from a second stroke?

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In any of those circumstances, it's important to realize that having had one event does mean you're at higher risk than the next person who hasn't had those symptoms. You're at higher risk to have a second event. Now, we can do a great deal to prevent a second event and to be sure you don't have it if we look at all the risk factors for stroke, and make sure we control each one as perfectly as possible. So that includes all the risk factors for atherosclerosis, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol being obese or overweight, being physically inactive, having out of control diabetes. And it includes the risk factors specific to stroke such as: atrial fibrillation, or sickle-cell disease, or other heart defects that make you prone to have clots that we can control those as well, but if we do all that we can to control those, we can reduce your chances tremendouly of ever having a second event.