Researchers of the Julius Center and the Utrecht Stroke Center have identified eight main triggers that appear to increase the risk of intracranial aneurysm.
From drinking coffee to having sex to blowing your nose, you could temporarily raise your risk of rupturing a brain aneurysm — and suffering a stroke, according to a study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers of the Julius Center identified eight main triggers that appear to increase the risk of intracranial aneurysm (IA), a weakness in the wall of a brain blood vessel that often causes it to balloon. If it ruptures, it can result in a subarachnoid hemorrhage which is a stroke caused by bleeding at the base of the brain. An estimated 2 percent of the general population have IAs, but few rupture.
The researchers identified the eight factors and their contribution to the risk as:
• Coffee consumption (10.6 percent) • Vigorous physical exercise (7.9 percent) • Nose blowing (5.4 percent) • Sexual intercourse (4.3 percent) • Straining to defecate (3.6 percent) • Cola consumption (3.5 percent) • Being startled (2.7 percent) • Being angry (1.3 percent)
Read the full release of the American Heart Association here
Links to news releases on this:
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