Table-2: Level of awareness regarding the
risk factors and warning symptoms of stroke.
Smoking, high blood pressure, high blood lipid levels, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are known as modifiable
risk factors. Their impact on the heart can be reduced by making certain lifestyle adjustments or taking specific medications.
biological and individual)
risk factors by themselves does not immediately rule out the presence of occupational
risk factors;
This heightened risk was independent of other
risk factors such as high cholesterol, smoking, and hypertension.
When the researchers adjusted that statistical analysis to account for classic stroke
risk factors (like older age, high blood pressure, and smoking), women with HIV had almost a 2-fold higher stroke risk than women without HIV (Figure 2).
Objective: To evaluate the frequency of
risk factors with respect to age and gender in patients presenting for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery at a tertiary care cardiac facility.
KEY WORDS:
Risk factors, Protective factors, Deep venous thrombosis (DVT), Neurosurgery.
1 showing the percentage of patients having the number of
risk factors and table.
Results: Frequency wise
risk factors were lined up as male sex (74%) smoking (70%) hypertension (62%) diabetes mellitus (60%) hyperlipidemia (44%) family history (40%) and obesity (14%).
PIMCO, at times, suggests five
risk factors, but elsewhere identifies 13 of them.
Dutch researchers found that 62 per cent of very obese children aged 12 or younger have one or more of the
risk factors.