Four risk factors linked to 99% of strokes, study finds

 Sorry, but cholesterol is not the problem; INFLAMMATION IS! Without inflammation the arteries wouldn't be grabbing cholesterol to pack into plaque. Medical personnel took the shortcut and left the real cause still out there. And solving the correct problem would negate use of statins, Big Pharma will never allow such research to be completed.

Why doesn't your doctor know about this?

Inflammation video explaining it  here:

The accent is a bit hard to understand and needs to be  rerecorded to a laypersons understanding.

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Four risk factors linked to 99% of strokes, study finds

Nearly all strokes and heart attacks follow one of four risk factors, new research shows.

These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and tobacco smoking, whether past or current.

Together, they preceded 99 per cent of all cardiovascular events during a long-term study that analysed health data from more than 9 million adults in South Korea and the US.Even in women under 60, the demographic with the lowest risk of cardiovascular events, more than 95 per cent of heart attacks or strokes were linked to one of these existing risk factors.

High blood pressure was most commonly tied to events. In both the US and South Korea, more than 93 per cent of people who had a heart attack, stroke or heart failure had hypertension beforehand.

Philip Greenland, senior author and cardiologist from Northwestern University, said: “We think the study shows very convincingly that exposure to one or more nonoptimal risk factors before these cardiovascular outcomes is nearly 100 per cent.

“The goal now is to work harder on finding ways to control these modifiable risk factors rather than to get off track in pursuing other factors that are not easily treatable and not causal.”

Greenland and his co-authors note that the results challenge recent claims that cardiovascular events in the absence of risk factors are increasing, suggesting that previous studies may have missed diagnoses or overlooked risk factor levels below the clinical diagnostic threshold.

In an accompanying editorial, Duke University cardiologist Neha Pagidipati, who was not involved in the study, writes that the results show how important it is to manage health risks before they lead to serious, potentially fatal outcomes.

“We can, and must, do better,” Pagidipati said.