How does one prevent becoming the victim of a stroke?

When one has a history of stroke in their family, is there any thing that can be done to avoid becoming the next victim? Change in lifestyle? Diet? Attitude? Or anything else?

Yes! The primary risk factors for cardiovascular events are hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and smoking. The smoking part should be self-explanatory. It’s important to have a good diet and exercise regularly in order to prevent hypertension and high cholesterol. Diabetes is many times not preventable from onset, but it can be controlled with insulin or other medications, and is thereby the best method, because if you control the diabetes, it’s like you don’t have it at all.

Those are the primary risk factors, and if those are prophylactically prevented, then it GREATLY reduces the risk of strokes, and mortality in general.

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