Stroke is a common name for stroke, which includes cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. Among them, cerebral infarction is caused by cerebral tissue ischemia and ischemic stroke caused by lack of oxygen after the blood vessels of the brain are blocked, and if the parenchyma, ventricles or subarachnoid space of the brain are hemorrhage caused by trauma or vascular lesions, it is called hemorrhagic stroke.
Either case is critical and requires early treatment. Next, I will introduce the 7 major causes of stroke to you, and I hope that you will stay away from these factors after understanding and reduce the incidence of stroke.
1. Hypertension
High blood pressure is a condition caused by blood pressure levels exceeding the normal range. In the early stages of the disease, the patient will not have obvious symptoms of discomfort, but the disease will cause chronic damage to the body, making people's blood vessels more and more brittle, and the risk of rupture will be greatly increased. If a blood vessel in the brain ruptures and bleeds, it can cause a stroke.
2. Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease caused by the fact that the sugar ingested by the body cannot be fully metabolized and decomposed, and a large amount of glucose enters the bloodstream so that the blood sugar level remains high.
The disease is also difficult to completely cure and can cause chronic damage to the body. If the blood sugar is not well controlled, it will also cause lesions in major organs and tissues, causing the brain to have ischemia or bleeding and cause stroke.
3. Stay up late
Staying up late is something that a lot of people do, sometimes staying up late for work, sometimes for fun. Whatever the cause of staying up late, it will have an impact on the endocrine system of the body, and the body will not get enough rest. Over time, it is possible to cause blood pressure in the brain to rise, further catalyzing the occurrence of stroke.
4. Smoking
There are more than 4,000 kinds of harmful substances in cigarettes, so after entering the human body, they will inevitably infringe on health. Among them, nicotine and tar can cause blood lipids to thicken, increase the incidence of blood clots, carbon monoxide will also lead to a weakening of the elasticity of blood vessels, so that the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer increases. Clinically, many stroke patients are caused by long-term smoking.
5. Obesity
Obesity is known as the "source of all diseases". Because obese people are very prone to high blood pressure, high blood lipids, diabetes, gout and other diseases, but also increase the incidence of cancer.
The most important point is that obesity will increase the cardiovascular burden, major organs and tissues are also overloaded, and the possibility of stroke in the brain will be greatly increased.
6. Insufficient activities
Some people usually do not like to be active, and their bodies lack exercise. You may not feel problematic when you are young, and only after middle age will you find that your physique is worse than that of people who love sports, and the incidence of disease is very high.
Because long-term non-exercise will lead to weakened body function, blood lipids may also increase, the thickness and hardness of blood vessels increase, and it is very easy to have blood vessels blocked after age, so that stroke occurs.
7. Severe carotid artery stenosis
The carotid artery is the arterial blood vessel located on both sides of the neck, these two blood vessels are very important for the human body, if the carotid artery is broken, it may also cause death;
If you usually do not pay attention to protecting the cervical spine, after suffering from severe cervical spondylosis, the carotid artery is blocked, which may cause severe ischemia and hypoxia in the brain, causing people to have a stroke.
The above 7 are the causes of stroke, and I hope that everyone will pay attention to it. Here also to remind everyone that stroke is not only happening to the elderly, if young people do not maintain the body well, it is also possible to be favored by stroke, I hope that everyone in the usual time to try to stay away from factors that are not conducive to physical health, to develop good living, eating habits to maintain the body, so that they and stroke to maintain the corresponding distance.