
Sex, Coffee And Blowing Your Nose Could Lead To Stroke
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. Dutch researchers identified eight main triggers that appear to increase the risk of intracranial aneurysm, 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% 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%) | Straining to defecate (3.6%) |
Vigorous physical exercise (7.9%) | Cola consumption (3.5%) |
Nose blowing (5.4%) | Being startled (2.7%) |
Sexual intercourse (4.3%) | Being angry (1.3%) |
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