Healthy Lifestyle Cuts Women’s Stroke Risk in Half

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Healthy Lifestyle Cuts Women’s Stroke Risk in Half

A combination of low-risk lifestyle factors substantially reduces the risk for stroke, particularly cerebral infarction, in women. In addition, there appears to be a progressive reduction in risk with more low-risk lifestyle factors adopted, new research suggests.

The authors, led by Susanna C. Larsson, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, explain that while previous studies have suggested diet, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, and adiposity can affect the risk for stroke, little research has addressed the effect of combinations of these low-risk lifestyles.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study to report results on different combinations of low-risk lifestyle factors,” the authors write.

Neurology. Published online October 8, 2014. Abstract

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