Even if the young woman’s life could not be called healthy, positive changes in middle age significantly reduce the risk of stroke.
Giving up Smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and eating right – women of middle age contribute to the health of blood vessels and prevent stroke. A study published April 9 in Stroke, the publication of the “American stroke Association”.
Women more often than men suffer a stroke, die from stroke and have poorer health and physical function after a stroke. The average age of first stroke in women is 75 years. Based on this information, the researchers suggested that changes in lifestyle in mid-life can help to reduce the burden of stroke among women.
“We found that the transition to a healthy lifestyle even 50 years may prevent stroke,” said Gudarz Danae, the study’s lead author and associate Professor of cardiovascular disease Bernard, Harvard Lawn school. — “Women who changed the way of life in middle age, reduced long-term risk of stroke by almost a quarter, and ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke, more than a third”.
The researchers found that increased consumption of fish and nuts, reduction in the diet of red meat, apparently, has a positive effect on reducing the risk of stroke, although the impact of these changes was less significant than the ones achieved by increasing physical activity, Smoking cessation and maintaining a healthy weight.
