Good morning friends. Women should listen to this … High-fat diets raise stroke risk in women, Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds.
The new study is the largest to look at stroke risk in women and across all types of fat.
It showed a clear trend: Those who ate the most fat had a 44 per cent higher risk of the most common type of stroke compared to those who ate the least.
"It's a tremendous increase that is potentially avoidable," said Dr Emil Matarese, stroke chief at St Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. "What's bad for the heart is bad for the brain."
He reviewed but did not help conduct the research, which was presented yesterday at an American Stroke Association conference.
It involved 87,230 participants in the Women's Health Initiative , a federally funded study best known for revealing health risks from taking hormone pills for menopause symptoms.
Before menopause, women traditionally have had less risk of stroke than similarly aged men, although this is changing as women increasingly battle obesity and other health problems
After menopause, the risk rises and the gender advantage disappears, said Dr Ka He, a nutrition specialist and senior author of the study from the University of North Carolina.
He and another researcher, Sirin Yaemsiri, wanted to see whether dietary fat affected the odds. – The Times of India
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