Struck Down by the Gods

Causes and Prevention of Stroke

Peter C Gates

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Kinglsey Lodge Pty Ltd the Gates Family Trust
21 August 2025

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Coping with illness

This book describes the different types of strokes; their cause, and the medical conditions often confused with stroke. Although primarily intended for the non-medical person who wants to know how to prevent stroke (and heart attacks), there is much that would be of benefit to all health care professionals.

Atherosclerosis, the cause of virtually all heart attacks and a major cause of stroke, is the progressive accumulation throughout life of cholesterol beneath the inner lining of the hardened walls of our arteries. The book challenges the long-held belief that smoking, obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure are the cause of atherosclerosis. Although they make it worse, they cannot be the cause, simply because atherosclerosis occurs in the absence of these risk factors and based on irrefutable autopsy evidence, commences decades before these risk factors appear, in some of us before we are born. Many other reasons for challenging these beliefs are revealed. The book contains interesting historical facts on the evolution of knowledge throughout the centuries since ancient times, explains the difference between absolute and relative risk and benefit, and the real cause of atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries). It explains what we as individuals can do to prevent stroke (and heart attack). It discusses the risk factors that identify those of us who are at increased risk of suffering a stroke (and heart attack), in particular smoking and obesity (and the obesogenic environment we live in), that greatly increase the risk. It makes a plea to the regulatory authorities to alter the way industry funded research is conducted to provide greater certainty, in particular appointing independent data and safety monitoring committees and not allowing the industry to claim confidentiality over the study data. Finally, it makes a plea to publishers to have a clear statement on the front page stating that this study is/is not funded by industry, to ensure that all papers discuss relative (the benefit to society) and absolute (the benefit to us as an individual) risk increase and reduction, the numbers needed to treat and an economic analysis of the cost benefit. A controversial recommendation is that when a known treatment exists, any new treatment to be compared to that treatment and not to a placebo. The reasons behind these pleas are discussed in the book

By: Peter C Gates
Imprint: Kinglsey Lodge Pty Ltd the Gates Family Trust
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9780645515640
ISBN 10: 0645515647
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 21 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born 1951, Graduated MBBS Melbourne University 1975, FRACP 1984 Royal Australian College of Physicians, FAAN 2019 American Academy of Neurology. Awarded OAM 2021. Married for 46 years, 3 children First neurologist to establish a practice and a Neurology unit outside of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia.

Reviews for Struck Down by the Gods: Causes and Prevention of Stroke

A terrific book... Professor Steve Davis Based on our own experience we unreservedly commend this highly informative book to diverse audiences. including the lay audience, well-established neurologists, students of medicine, other healthcare disciplines as well as early career trainees. Enjoyment is assured! ...Professors Steve Davis, Geoff Donnan and Richard Gerraty.