How do you prevent strokes and are they hereditary?

Healthy Living: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, maintain a healthy weight and a normal blood pressure, and get exercise. No smoking, alcohol in moderation .... You get the idea. Stroke over age 60 are very unlikely to be hereditary, but the diseases that increase stroke risk are.

Stroke prevention : To prevent strokes, maintain a healthy weight, prevent diabetes, exercise, maintain healthy blood pressure, manage your stress well, and work to eliminate inflammation.

Arterial health: There is a genetic component to stroke.. but there is a lot of prevention that can be done even if one is at genetic risk. Avoid smoking, keep ldl 45, maintain good blood pressure,prevent diabetes, keep physically fit and active, take aspirin 81 mg daily

Heed risk factors: Strokes can occur due to hereditary susceptibility, but usually due to risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, cardiac disease, smoking, and in younger patients sickle cell anemia ( which is hereditary)

Stroke prevention: Strokes can often be prevented by not smoking, keeping blood pressure healthy, keeping a low blood cholesterol and controlling diabetes. For some people, using a medicine to prevent blood clots is important. Few strokes are hereditary. The risk factors however tend to run in families (for example diabetes mellitus).