Though
managing stroke risk will vary from person to person, the following six steps are a good starting point to reduce your risk.
Not exact matches
Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to
manage their diabetes effectively in order to reduce their
risk of developing long term complications such as heart disease,
stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.
Badly
managed blood glucose levels can increase the
risk of long term complications, such as heart disease,
stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputation, and short term complications, such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) 3 and hypoglycaemia4 (hypo).
«Prehypertension should be
managed with changes in diet and exercise to help reduce the
risk of
stroke,» Xu said.
«And, next time you visit your doctor, be sure you understand your own
risk of
stroke by discussing your personal
risk factors and how best to
manage them.»
Smoking will increase your
risk of cancer, emphysema, heart disease,
stroke, and dying young, but if you
manage to dodge all those bullets, it may actually reduce your need for joint - replacement surgery later in life.