Stroke Patient Education Resources

Patient Materials

Some medical conditions and lifestyle choices can put anyone—regardless of gender, ethnicity, or age—at risk for stroke. However, people in certain groups are more likely to have a stroke. Learn more about how certain factors can affect your risk for stroke:

Fact sheets and information about conditions and behaviors related to stroke

• Chronic Kidney Disease Basics
• What is Diabetes?
• About Heart Disease
• Heart Failure
• High Blood Pressure Symptoms and Causes
• Overweight & Obesity
• Physical Inactivity
• Improving Your Eating Habits

Stroke information in Spanish

• Acerca del accidente cerebrovascular (About Stroke)
• Signos y síntomas del accidente cerebrovascular (Stroke Signs and Symptoms)
• Las mujeres y el accidente cerebrovascular (Women and Stroke)
• El embarazo y el accidente cerebrovascular: ¿Está en riesgo? (Pregnancy and Stroke: Are Your at Risk?)
• Los hombres y el accidente cerebrovascular (Men and Stroke)
• Conozca su riesgo de accidente cerebrovascular (Know Your Risk for Stroke)
• Prevención del accidente cerebrovascular: Lo que puede hacer (Prevent Stroke: What You Can Do)
• Tratar el accidente cerebrovascular y recuperarse (Treat and Recover from Stroke)

Resources from other organizations

The following websites include patient-friendly links and resources about stroke:

• American Stroke Association (ASA): About Stroke
  • ASA Resources in Spanish: Recursos en Español
• National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: Stroke
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): Stroke Information Page
  • NINDS Know Stroke Campaign
  • NINDS Know Stroke Campaign Spanish Toolkit

Tools for community health workers (CHWs)

Hispanic populations have low control rates for hypertension, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Also, they have high prevalence of high blood cholesterol, and their diets are often high in salt and saturated fats. Reaching these audiences with effective messages about prevention can be challenging.

Promotoras and other CHWs are encouraged to read this fotonovela with participants:

• English fotonovela: How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol [PDF – 325 KB].
• Spanish fotonovela: Cómo controlar la grasa y el cholesterol [PDF – 421 KB].

A Promotora/CHW Guide accompanies the How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol fotonovela and gives these members of the health care team a brief summary of objectives, tips, additional activities, reviews, and reminders:

• English promotora guide: How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: A Promotora Guide. [PDF – 2 MB]
• Spanish promotora guide: Cómo controlar la grasa y el colesterol: Guía de la promotora [PDF – 1.77 MB].

This is an easy-to-understand fact sheet about heart health (aspirin use when appropriate, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation):

• English version: ABCS of Heart Health [PDF – 333 KB].
• Spanish version: 4 Pasos Adelante [PDF – 378 KB].