What kind of people can get a stroke?

Answer 1

exercise

1. Being a smoker puts you at an increase by almost 4 times compared to non smokers for peripheral artery disease.

2. Having a family history of stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and Heart disease put you at higher risk for peripheral artery disease.

3. Those that are considered obese (25 or more Body Mass Index-BMI) are more prone to developing heart disease.

4. Having Diabetes mellitus puts you at risk for developing peripheral artery disease.

5. Lack of physical activity

6. Being 65 and over in addition with number 1,2, 3, 4, and/or 5 above.

A wise thing is to consider ways to detect stroke risk such as preventive screening.

Answer 2

Smokers, drinkers, and sedentary people who are overweight. Combine any of them, and you have a bomb waiting to explode. Throw in glucose intolerance or diabetes, and it makes things even worse.

Answer 3

Although it is more common in elders, anyone can have a stroke. This varies from infants to elders, it does not discriminate.

Answer 4

two-thirds of strokes occur in people over age 65 but they can occur at any age

Answer 5

Some one who is at risk of getting heart disease is someone who does not exercise, and eats foods that contain alot of suger, salt, and saturated fat.