Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity all around the world. Identification of stroke risk factors and protective lifestyles is necessary for optimizing personalized treatment and reducing mortality. Sedentary lifestyle is a well-known modifiable risk factor in primary and secondary stroke prevention. Also, in recent years, exercise has been described as a neuroprotective and neuroreparative factor. Here we summarized the existing available evidence of the relationship between physical activity and stroke.
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García-Cabo, C., & López-Cancio, E. (2020). Exercise and Stroke. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 1228, pp. 195–203). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1792-1_13
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