Q: Once a person has a stroke, what's the likelihood that they'll have another one if they control their blood pressure?
In the words of a mother whose child asks for a new pair of Air Jordans: It depends. That's because there are so many kinds of strokes. Certainly, many strokes are caused by high blood pressure. For those people, there's a 20 percent recurrence rate within two years if they control their BP, compared to a 50-percent rate if they don't. What's best is that you can lower that 20 percent even more (by about 70 percent more to less than 5 percent ) by avoiding smoke (even second-hand), eating healthy fats (like 2 gm of distilled fish oil or an ounce of walnuts a day), controlling stress and meditating daily, taking 162 mg of aspirin a day if your doc says it's ok, and taking 200 mg of coenzyme Q10 a day.
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