PREVENTION IS POWERFUL!
You are at risk if any of the following occur.
Inappropriate lifestyle habits can lead to a stroke.
Tobacco use, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity lead to hypertension, diabetes and high lipids in the blood, which in turn, leads to strokes.
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What are risk factors?
Risk factors are those factors which predispose you, make you prone to, and make your susceptible to, disease. These factors put you or your family 'at risk' of disease. Prevention of, or control, of these factors can prevent disease.
 
When do life-style factors become risk factors?

If we eat the wrong kind of food and/or eat more than what our body requires then the person becomes over weight and then it becomes a risk factor.

When the person is physically inactive then it causes disease and then again this becomes a risk factor

When tobacco is consumed then it becomes a risk factor.

Inappropriate lifestyle habits become risk factors and can lead to disease. Some of the lifestyle related diseases are heart-attack, strokes, blood pressure, diabetes, osteoarthritis, cancer, over weight, obesity, mental illness, bone and joint problems.

Just as an epidemic of tobacco use is spreading, contributing massively to present and future disease, so are changes in diet occurring faster now than at any other point in history, in our country with direct effects on health.

Some risk factors are preventable and some are not. For example, age cannot be changed but obesity can be decreased and tobacco can be given up.

 
Some risk factors are more 'risky' than others. For example, tobacco use or smoking causes a greater risk to health than obesity.
Risk factors also interact to have a multiplicative effect. So, if you have two or more risk factors, your health risk is much more increased than if you just have one.
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