“…Stress is not considered as a classical stroke risk factors by American Stroke Association, but is seen in high percentages among non-established risk factors in the references (18-45%) [4,11,13,[16][17][18][19][20]. Stress was ranked as the first risk factor (34.9%) by participants in this study, while hypertension was the second most commonly cited risk factor (34.1%); however, hypertension ranked as the first risk factor in other studies [11,13,16,17]. As an important stroke risk factor, diabetes mellitus was cited by only 9.8% of the study population, a finding consistent with other published studies [11,17] (but some other studies reported figures as low as 2.0% [4,13,16]).…”