Lifestyle Link to Stroke Risk
Making just small changes to your lifestyle could make a big difference to your risk for stroke. Researchers in Cambridge followed 20,000 men and women in Norfolk for four positive behaviour attributes: Currently non smoking, physically active, eating at least five servings of fruit and veg per day, consuming only a moderate amount of alcohol. People who displayed none of the behaviours were over twice as likely to suffer a stroke than those compliant with all four.
Myint PK, Luben RN, Wareham NJ, Bingham SA, Khaw KT. Combined effect of health behaviours and risk of first ever stroke in 20,040 men and women over 11 years’ follow-up in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC Norfolk): prospective population study.BMJ. 2009 Feb 19;338:b349. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b349. View Abstract View Full Paper
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