What causes stroke in elderly people?

Stroke generally refers to stroke, stroke in the elderly is mostly caused by vascular disease, abnormal blood pressure and other reasons.

1, vascular disease

atherosclerosis is the main cause of stroke in the elderly, consider atherosclerosis caused by vascular stenosis, blood flow speed slowed down; the elderly presence of arteritis will also make arterial proliferation, stenosis, and then cause stroke.

2, abnormal

blood cancer, leukemia and other blood diseases will lead to decreased blood coagulation function in the elderly, prone to hemorrhagic stroke.

3, abnormal

blood pressure in the elderly suddenly increased, decreased, leading to abnormal arterial spasm, may also cause stroke.