Stroke Could be a Hereditary Disease

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Health experts believe, there is a relationship between the risk of stroke by heredity, although not directly. At many family members have suffered a stroke, awareness of the factors that can lead to stroke should be further improved.

The number of cases of stroke in your family may be due to dietary factors, lifestyle, and a similar character.  food origin is not excessive in fact harmless.

But if every day eating fatty foods, especially animal fat in excessive amounts, let alone eating fewer vegetables and fresh fruits, would increase the risk of stroke.

Quick to anger, panic, and stress, especially smokers, lack of exercise, excess weight and lack of sleep will multiply your chances of stroke.

Meanwhile, according to research by scientists from the United States, there are various factors that increase the risk of stroke such as high blood pressure, obesity and smoking habits. It can indeed be changed, but the family health history can not be changed.

"As far as possible you need to know the health history of family and parents accurately. Remember that medical history can not be modified, but can be used as a record of risk factors," said lead researcher from Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Sudha Seshadri.

A stroke on the parents, according to Boston, should be incorporated into the risk factors for stroke in a person.

In that study, Sudha together a team of researchers collected data from 3443 participants who participated in the Framingham Heart Study. The participants who included the children of the study participants.

Among these parents, 106 participants suffered a stroke at age 65. Later, the children of the 128 participants suffered a stroke at the age of 40 years.

After accounting for other risk factors, researchers found that participants who have a parent had a stroke at age 65 had twice the risk of a stroke at any age and stroke risk fourfold upon reaching age 65.

In addition, the researchers found that girls have the highest risk of stroke than women who had a stroke. Meanwhile, the strokes that occur on rare inherited their father over the children but include boys and girls.

Of the two types of ischemic stroke is caused by blockage of blood flow in the brain or hemorrhagic stroke is caused by bleeding into the brain, then the type of ischemic stroke is the most widely experienced by parents yan then passed on to their children.

In detail, 74 people from the 106 participants who experienced ischemic stroke, while 106 of 128 cases of stroke in children they are stroke ischemic.

"It's clear, very strong genetic component in stroke risk factors," says Sudha. But he added, the need for further research and more genetic records.

Nevertheless, he cautioned, the highest risk children who had parents who suffered a stroke at age 65 is experiencing high blood pressure.

"We recommend that you have to start treating family health history to motivate you to control your blood pressure, blood , quit smoking, exercising and maintain ideal weight," said Sudha.( Taken From Many Sources)

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