Exercise can also trigger ruptured aneurysm, study finds
(NEWSER) - A new study suggests some strange stroke risk factors: coffee, sex, exercise, and ... nose-blowing? All could lead to a burst blood vessel in the brain. The activities increase blood pressure, which boosts the risk of a ruptured aneurysm, says the Dutch study of 250 patients over three years. Coffee triggered more than one in 10 burst aneurysms, a high percentage that researchers attribute to how common, not how risky, an activity it is; in fact, coffee drinkers' risk was only 1.7 times greater than that of non-drinkers, the BBC reports. More»
