Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Stroke Risk for Women

Some more big news from the Womens Health Study: Researchers report in the Archives of Internal Medicine that women with healthy lifestyles (never smoked, moderate alcohol consumption, regular exercise, low body mass index (a measure of body fat ratio), and a healthy diet) had significantly fewer strokes. Specifically, they report that women with a healthy lifestyle had a “significantly reduced risk of total and ischemic stroke but not of hemorrhagic stroke.” Click here to see the abstract.

For a somewhat more detailed article on this subject check out this in EurekAlert! (click here).

Add comment July 11th, 2006