Key result
Hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, and lipids remain established stroke risk factors requiring guideline-directed management.
Why the study?
Recent epidemiologic evidence on hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, and lipids as stroke risk factors needed synthesis along with guideline recommendations.
Design
Review article
Supports guideline-directed control of hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, and lipids to lower stroke risk; reinforces and extends ASA/NSA consensus with recent epidemiology.
This article reviews the most recent epidemiologic evidence supporting topics such as hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, and lipids as risks for stroke. Where available, American Stroke Association (ASA) and National Stroke Association (NSA) consensus statement guidelines for the treatment of these risk factors are given.
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Benson et al. (2000) studied this question. Hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, and lipids are established epidemiologic risk factors for stroke that should be managed according to current consensus guidelines.
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