Your blood type may be a key defining factor when it comes to your stroke risk, a new study has warned. The life-threatening condition occurs when the blood supply is cut of to parts of the brain.
Strokes are categorised into two types - haemorrhagic and ischemic, with the latter being most common. An ischemic stroke happens when either a clot or a build-up of fatty deposits and cholesterol blocks a major blood vessel in the brain.
A haemorrhagic stroke is caused be a burst blood vessel in the brain, leaking blood into surrounding tissues. High blood pressure, diabetes, smoking (doubling the risk for ischemic strokes), high cholesterol and being obese or binge drinking are all risk factors when it comes to strokes.
Now, a new study links a person’s blood type to the risk of having a stroke. Published in the journal Neurology, the team of researchers from the University of Maryland looked at data of nearly 600,000 healthy people from 48 different studies, the Mirror reports.
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