Producer, Rapper and Entrepreneur Dr. Dre recently end up in an ICU room at Cedar Sinai Hospital after suffering a sudden brain aneurysm. 

A brain aneurysm is when a blood vessel in the brain expands to a balloon of blood.  The balloon leaking or rupturing causes a subarachnoid hemorrhage.  This event is most of the time sudden, and a lot of times, fatal.

This news hit home for me as I personally know several people who have suffered and also died from bleeding in the brain following a brain aneurysm.

Dr. Mitchell Elkind, president of the American Heart Association and a professor of neurology and epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City, explained brain aneurysms on Heart.org.

“It’s kind of like the neurological equivalent of sudden cardiac death. It can happen to young, perfectly healthy people. There is no reason to suspect anything and, boom, it comes out of nowhere.”

Dr. Elkind, who did not treat Dr. Dre also added:  “Any sudden, severe headache that’s unlike any headache you’ve had before warrants investigation as quickly as possible.  A bunch of bad things could come from it.”

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,   risk factors for developing a brain aneurysm include cigarette smoking, being over the age of 40, and having high blood pressure.

Because brain  aneurysms mostly do not show symptoms until they either become very large or rupture, it is very important to seek medical assistance any time you have a bad headache, something that’s often described from survivors as “the worst headache of your life.”

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