Smoking, particularly heavy smoking, is linked to some unexplained strokes in younger adults, mainly in male individuals and ...

UTA study finds that Americans over 65 who experienced parental divorce as children are more likely to suffer a stroke ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people is at risk of stroke during their lifetime. What's even worse is that certain factors can increase your susceptibility to life ...

Diabetes, along with hypertension, is one of the modifiable risk factors for stroke [82] but it is not known if the genetic risks for diabetes directly contribute to IS risk. Nonetheless ...

Researchers say the risk of an unexplained stroke is higher in younger adults who smoke, especially males and people ages 45 to 49. People who smoke the equivalent of 20 packs or more per year have ...

which are also known risk factors for stroke. "Our study indicates that even after taking into account most of the known risk factors associated with stroke — including smoking, physical ...

Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and smoking are strongly associated with an increased risk for severe vs nonsevere stroke.

This substantially increased chance is comparable to other well-established stroke risk factors like diabetes, researchers say. The observational study, which probed data on 13,205 people aged 65 ...

Ischemic stroke (IS) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are complex and multifactorial diseases caused by the combination of vascular risk factors, environment and genetic factors. A genetic ...