Every 20 seconds one Indian suffers a brain stroke or three every minute and the numbers are increasing alarmingly due to changing lifestyles. At this rate around 1.54 million Indians are affected by strokes every year and the worse is 90 per cent of stroke patients failed to reach hospital on time. The lifetime risk of stroke after the age of 55 is 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 6 for men. These revelations came at the ongoing 3-day Fourth Congress of Society of Neuro Vascular Intervention (SNVICON) Mumbai 2019 with international participation here on Saturday. Prominent speakers