Tools for preventing strokes include a healthy diet, home blood pressure monitoring and an online stroke-risk estimator, according to updated by leading heart health organisation.
Together with traditional measures like smoking cessation aids, medications and surgeries, the updated recommendations can help people substantially reduce the risk of stroke, says Dr James Meschia, who led the group that wrote the new guidelines for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
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