{"id":13324,"date":"2017-10-11T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/10\/11\/health-conditions-that-increase-stroke-risk-rise-across-all-ages-races\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:44:00","slug":"health-conditions-that-increase-stroke-risk-rise-across-all-ages-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/health-conditions-that-increase-stroke-risk-rise-across-all-ages-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Conditions That Increase Stroke Risk Rise Across All Ages, Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Roughly 80 percent of all first strokes arise from risks that people can influence with behavioral changes, doctors say \u2014 risks like high blood pressure, smoking and drug abuse.<\/p>\n

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For years, doctors have been warning us that high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, illegal drug use and diabetes increase our chances of having a potentially fatal stroke.<\/p>\n

And yet, most of the stroke patients showing up at hospitals from 2004 to 2014 had one or more of these risk factors. And the numbers of people at risk in this way tended to grow among all age groups and ethnicities in that time period.<\/p>\n

That’s according to an analysis of the charts of more than 900,000 people admitted to U.S. hospitals for stroke within that decade. The study<\/a> was published Wednesday in the journal Neurology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“An estimated 80 percent of all first strokes are due to risk factors that can be changed \u2014 such as high blood pressure \u2014 and many efforts have been made to prevent, screen for and treat these risk factors,” says neurologist and study author Dr. Fadar Oliver Otite<\/a> of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “Yet we saw a widespread increase in the number of stroke patients with one or more risk factors.”<\/p>\n