An orange a day, may ward off stroke risk

Eating fruits that contain vitamin C, may reduce your risk of the most common type of haemorrhagic stroke, says a study.

Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits, papaya, peppers, broccoli, strawberries, amla/ gooseberries.

Haemorrhagic stroke is less common than ischemic stroke, but is more often deadly. The study involved 65 people who had experienced an intra-cerebral haemorrhagic stroke or a blood vessel rupture inside the brain. They're compared with 65 healthy people.

Participants were tested for the levels of vitamin C in their blood. 41 % of the cases had normal levels , 45 % showed depleted levels of the vitamin and 14 % were considered deficient of the vitamin.

On average, the people who had a stroke had depleted levels of vitamin C, while those who had not a stroke had normal levels of the vitamin.

The results showed that vitamin C deficiency should be considered a risk factor for this severe type of stroke, as were high blood pressure, drinking alcohol and being obese, said the study author. Vitamin C had other benefits like creating collagen, a protein found in bones, skin and tissues, Vitamin C is also linked to heart diseases.

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