Stroke is a major neurological disease. Stroke is the third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer), but it is the number one cause of disability. Stroke occurs due to disruption of blood vessels in the brain.
Research in the United States shows that there are 3 million Americans is affected by blood vessel disease (heart disease, stroke, and peripheral blood vessels) and 150,000 of them die each year. General recurrent stroke incidence is also found, 33% of stroke patients who survive will suffer a stroke back in 5 years.
Stroke can occur because a person has healthy individual stroke risk factors. There stroke risk factors that can be controlled and others can not be controlled.
Stroke risk factors that can not be controlled are age, gender, race, family history, and history of previous stroke. Old age group and men easier get stroke, as well as someone with a family history of stroke.
Stroke risk factors can be controlled are hypertension, diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood triglycerides, obesity and so on.
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