Kitty the CRN bus helps us provide health screenings for World Stroke Day
Members of the public, staff, and students were invited on board 'Kitty' the CRN van recently to meet with Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science staff and get free health screening to assess their risk of Stroke as part of an engagement event to mark World Stroke Day 2023.
Members of the Liverpool centre for cardiovascular Science and Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, were joined by the NIHR Northwest team on their patient engagement bus Kitty, as they welcomed members of the public and University staff to hop on board and get free health screenings to coincide with World Stroke Day 2023.
Dr Deirdre Lane and her colleagues were based on the bus, parked outside the William Henry Duncan Building on Friday 27th October, as passers-by were encouraged to step inside and receive blood pressure tests, height and weight measurements, ECG’s and other measurements, to determine their risk of stroke, and provide lifestyle advice on how to minimise the risk of the potentially deadly health event.
One in four of us will have a stroke in our lifetime. And 90% of those strokes could be prevented by addressing a small number of risk factors including high blood pressure (hypertension), irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation), smoking, diet and exercise. World Stroke Day is organised by the World Stroke Organisation to encourage engagement and raise awareness in the condition, and how we all can take sensible steps to reduce our chances of falling victim of it.
Dozens of people visited the team in the bus throughout the day, with members of the public and lots of University staff hopping on board to get their health MOT.
