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   However, for older patients who had sustained a TIA compared to those who hadn't, their survival rate was lower by almost 4% at the end of the 1st year, 13% after 5yrs, and 20% after 9yrs. Your odds of surviving are worse if you've already been hospitalized for a stroke or suffer from congestive heart failure or atrial fibrillation. Does this mean we should just hang it up and wait for the Grim Reaper? Nah. Instead, we should be doing everything we can to avoid that first TIA! And if we have the bad luck to have had a TIA, then we need to talk w/our family doc about how to prevent a second TIA or worse, a full blown stroke. Follow @alvinblin 
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