Prevent stroke: With ten tips, 70 percent are avoidable

Created: 09/28/2022, 10:13 am

By: Natalie Hull Drawbar

A stroke and its consequences can be prevented if you pay attention to certain factors in addition to a healthy lifestyle.

Talking is difficult, the words sound slurred, the gaze is fixed and the mouth movement uncontrolled - if you notice these signs in yourself or others, you should call 112 quickly.

There are five typical symptoms that could indicate a stroke.

Then every minute counts so that the person concerned is treated in the hospital.

In many cases, a stroke can be prevented if you minimize certain risks in everyday life.

Stroke: Certain factors can favor it

Severe headaches and dizziness are typical of a stroke.

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In Germany, around 270,000 people suffer a stroke every year.

However, more than 70 percent could be avoided if those affected lived healthier lives.

“Certain factors can promote the development of a stroke.

Not everyone can be influenced, such as genes or age.

An exact family history is still the best "gene test" at the moment, explains Dr.

Sven Kolfenbach, chief physician for internal medicine at the Helios Klinik Jerichower Land in Burg.

Prevent stroke: With ten tips, 70 percent are avoidable

In order to reduce the risk of a stroke as much as possible, you should pay more attention to the following ten influencing factors in everyday life:

• 1. Avoid high blood pressure

• 2. Reduce obesity

• 3. No smoking

• 4. Reduce stress in everyday life

• 5. Drink less or no alcohol

• 6. Have cholesterol levels checked

• 7. Assess risk for diabetes and treat diabetes properly

• 8. Balanced diet low in fat and sugar

• 9. Getting enough exercise (150 minutes to 300 minutes of exercise per week)

• 10. Adjust cardiac arrhythmia, especially atrial fibrillation, with medication

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Prevention expert Bettina Begerow from the German Stroke Foundation knows how everyone can reduce the risk of a stroke as much as possible: "A healthy lifestyle is still of the greatest importance in prevention." The classic risks such as being overweight, high blood sugar, high Cholesterol, high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis are the excesses of an unhealthy lifestyle.

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