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New study lists risk factors for stroke resulting from ruptured brain aneurysm:

Researchers from University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, analyzed 250 patients who survived such a stroke and identified eight risk factors tied to the event. They included drinking a cup of coffee, which carried the highest risk, having sex, physical exercise, nose blowing, straining to defecate, drinking cola and being startled or angry.

The report doesn't say how many of the 250 patients might have simultaneously exposed themselves to two or more of the risk factors. We can think of ways to combine four, but that may be a failure of imagination.