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To Prevent a Stroke, Household Chores and Leisurely Strolls May Help
As we get older, unfortunately our chances of having a stroke rise. While there’s obviously no way to turn back the clock on our age, fortunately there are ways to lower our risk of a stroke and that includes staying physically active. Take walks, ride a bike, play a favorite sport. According to our current exercise guidelines for American adults, the goal is to get in at least two and a half hours each week of moderate-intensity physical activity as well as two days of muscle-strengthening activity.
National study suggests increasing moderate activity could cut stroke risk by 40 percent
Stroke has been well established as a preventable disease, but it is the second most common cause of death in the United States and third most common cause of disability globally. Physical activity level has emerged as an important risk factor for stroke, but the amount and intensity required to prevent strokes has yet to be determined.
This long-running study proves that nice people finish first
Science always begins with a question, and Big Science poses big questions. At the turn of the millennium, one of the biggest conundrums in the health of America was the disparity in stroke deaths between Black and white individuals across the United States, and between residents of the South and people living in the rest of the country. Black people under age 75 were more than twice as likely to die from stroke than were white people, while people who lived in the South had a 40 percent higher risk of dying from stroke than their counterparts in other parts of the United States.
In the ‘Stroke Belt,’ Erosion of Memory Is More Likely Too
People in a large area of the American South have long been known to have more strokes and to be more likely to die from them than people living elsewhere in the country.
New study calculates damage of food + lifestyle fails. What’s your score?
Hot sauce may burn the tongue, but the inner fire of inflammation brings real damage.
“We know inflammation is detrimental for heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions,” said Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biostatistics. Research has demonstrated that diet and lifestyle choices contribute to inflammation. But which foods and choices do we mean, exactly?
- A REGARDS study examines factors associated with higher risk of incident hypertension among black adults
- Do age and race differences determine risk of stroke in women and men?
- Your Stroke Risk May Differ by How Long You Sleep
- Targeting cardiovascular disease risk factors may be important across a lifetime