How to Reduce your Stroke Risk

Female: Strokes or brain attacks are scary but often preventable.

Male: While the stroke risk factors can seem overwhelming, becoming aware of them and taking steps to get healthier, it can help reduce the risk of potentially life threatening stroke.

High blood pressure which is 140 over 90 or greater increases stroke risk for the six-fold. This can lead to weaken blood vessels and eventually to hemorrhagic stroke.

Cholesterol is made internally and is also found in the food we eat and levels rice above 200 milligrams per deciliter, this can lead to a stroke causing blockage.

People who are overweight are also stroke candidates because obesity can lead to hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.

Lifestyle choices can also increase stroke risk. Smokers have doubled the risk of stroke. Women who drink more than one alcohol beverage a day, a man who consume more than two also have increase stroke risk.

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