Healthy lifestyle management after stroke

There are things you can do to reduce your risk of having another stroke and stay as healthy as possible, including taking good care of yourself and taking medication.

Steps to reduce your risk of stroke :

1. Control high blood pressure: Effective antihypertensive drugs can maintain blood pressure at an ideal level.

2. Regulate blood lipids: This can be achieved through diet and medication.

3. Quit smoking in time: There are some auxiliary measures that can make it easier for you to quit smoking.

4. Manage blood sugar: It is crucial for diabetes patients to control blood sugar.

5. Maintain an ideal body weight.

6. Reduce alcohol intake.

7. Increase the amount of exercise.

8. Correction of cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation.