PREVENT STROKES!
Prevent stroke by preventing blood pressure, avoiding tobacco and leading a healthy life style.
Keep your blood pressure well under control.
If you have a family history get regular checkups done.
Eat health-eat whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
Avoid refined flous, sugars and trans fats.
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Risk factors preventation
There are many factors, also known as risk factors , which make a person more susceptible to strokes. Many of these are preventable. Prevention of these can prevent strokes.
 
  Preventable Lifestyle risk factors (that can be prevented or changed)
  • Smoking.
  • Lack of physical activity (a sedentary lifestyle).
  • Obesity.
  • An unhealthy diet.
  • Excess alcohol.
  Treatable or partly treatable risk factors:
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure).
  • High cholesterol blood level.
  • High triglyceride (fat) blood level.
  • Diabetes.
  • Kidney diseases causing diminished kidney function.
  Fixed risk factors - ones that you cannot alter:
  • A strong family history. This means if you have a father or brother who developed heart disease or a stroke before they were 55, or in a mother or sister before they were 65.
  • Being male.
  • An early menopause in women.
  • Age. The older you become, the more likely you are to develop atheroma.
  • Ethnic group. For example, people who live in the UK with ancestry from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka have an increased risk.
 

If you have a fixed risk factor, you may want to make an extra effort to tackle any lifestyle risk factors that can be changed and the risk of stroke can be decreased.

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