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The causes of stroke are mostly controllable lifestyle factors, from smoking to diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and excessive stress. Preventive actions on stroke would also contribute to global goals to reduce cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and other significant causes of death and suffering worldwide.

New research on current level of sodium and potassium intake and their associations with blood pressure (BP) in a large sample of Heilongjiang, Qinghai, Hebei, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan provinces in China, led by The George Institute for Global Health (China), Chinese Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and Queen Mary University of London was published in Hypertension

New research shows that more than half of those with type 2 diabetes that was not well-controlled were not getting their treatment adjusted within six months of returning a high blood glucose test.