The study, published in the journal Journal of the American Heart Associationargued that by continuing seven specific habits it can contribute to the prevention of a cerebrovascular attack.
What was the study on stroke prevention based on?
To reach these conclusions, the North American experts made a particular follow-up to about 11,568 adults between 45 and 64 years old, for an average of 28 years. And they paid attention to how her lifestyle could influence the risk of suffering a stroke, which is one of the most frequent reasons for urgent neurological assistance.
All participants were assigned a “polygenic stroke risk score,” based on blood tests that identified telltale mutations associated with these deadly events.
In this way, the habits, proposed by the American Heart Association, were called the “Life’s Simple 7”. Although there are seven only four are clearly modifiable. The other three are associated with positive side effects of staying healthy.
How to prevent a stroke?: the seven basic habits
The “seven metrics“, as put by the members of the American Heart Association, require not only the initiative of the person, but also that the person undergo various checkups and corresponding medical follow-up, once in a while.
The seven points necessary to reduce the chances of contracting a stroke are the following:
- Maintain a body mass index less than 25 BMI (average weight limit between normal weight and overweight).
- No Smoking.
- hold a healthy diet.
- Have an average of physical activity that turn around 150 minutes weekly.
- Have a cholesterol less than or equal to 200mg/dl.
- Have a blood pressure systolic less than 120mmHg, and a diastolic less than 80mmHg.
- hold a basal blood glucose less than 100mg/dl.
It is known that both smoking, obesity, hypertension, diabetes and a sedentary lifestyle raise the risks to suffer a ictus (stroke). Another important risk factor, according to what the specialists were able to learn, are the family background of this disease.
The participants with the highest genetic risk and worst heart health were those who had increased risk of stroke throughout their lives, who averaged at 25% of the participants. However, for their part, for those who had practiced the “Life’s Simple 7″, this risk was decreased between a 30% and a 43%according to the final numbers of the study.
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According to the teacher Myriam Fornagegeneticist of the University of Texas at Houston and one of the project leaders: “Our study confirms that modifying lifestyle risk factors, such as blood pressure control, can counter genetic risk of stroke“.
And along these lines, he concluded: “We can use genetic information to find out who has a higher risk of having a stroke, and encourage them to adopt a healthy cardiovascular lifestylesuch as that they follow from now on the ‘Life’s Simple 7’ of the AHA”.
Source: Ambito
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