The greatest risk factor that causes a stroke is D) high blood pressure.
What is a stroke, its symptoms and causes?
- Stroke is a common problem that is associated with the damaging of brain cells or part of the brain due to an inadequate supply of blood.
- The early symptoms of stroke include severe headache, difficulty in memorizing, behaviour change etc.
- Severe symptoms include paralysis, memory loss, difficulty in talking and understanding etc.
- There are two main reasons for the stroke. These are- the blocking of an artery due to high cholesterol or clotting of blood and bursting of a blood vessel due to high blood pressure.
- High cholesterol causes the thinning of blood vessels and thus, less blood reaches the brain.
- Hypertension or high blood pressure causes the sudden bursting of blood vessels resulting in no supply of blood to the brain or its part.
Thus, the greatest factor associated with stroke is high blood pressure which results in the bursting of blood vessels and then disruption in the supply of blood to the brain.
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