Risk factors for stroke

As outlined on the slide, there are many different risk factors for stroke, many of which overlap and interact with each other.1-3

References:

1. US Centre for Disease Control. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/risk_factors.htm. Accessed March 2024.

2. GBD 2019 Stroke Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Neurol 2021; 20 (10): 795–820.

3. Campbell BCV, De Silva DA, Macleod MR, et al. Ischaemic stroke. Nat Rev Dis Primers 2019; 5 (1): 70.