Reducing risk factors for stroke

 If you have had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) or have some risk factors for later, you have to control them in order to reduce the likelihood of stroke recurrence or new questions.

Please note the following medical treatment you may be:

Hypertension: is one of the leading risk factors of stroke. You have good blood pressure control with proper diet, lifestyle adjustments, or to use specific drugs.

Diabetes: you should control your blood sugar levels

Cardiovascular disease: especially atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease. You must use the appropriate drug regimen

The risk factors that you can control:

Smoking: you stop smoking

Obesity, increased cholesterol, increased blood fat: you lose weight, proper diet.

Inactive, which can be active every day for at least 30 minutes

Do not use alcohol excessively

The risk factors you can not control

Age: possibility of stroke increases with age, as well as a number of other diseases, strokes occur in people over 60 years old

Gender: both sexes are capable of having a stroke, in the young, the male is more

Heredity and Race: stroke-related genetics and race, especially those of your close relatives have had a stroke