Stroke - women more likely to inherit

Stroke :: Stroke - women more likely to inherit

The Lancet Neurology published a new study saying women are at higher inherited risk for the most common type of stroke than men. The new study found that women who had strokes were 40 percent more likely to have at least one close relative who suffered a stroke than were men with strokes. Having a mother who had a stroke was 80 percent more common in women stroke patients than in men.

The study of 806 men and women who suffered ischemic strokes or the minor artery blockages called transient ischemic attacks showed women were more likely to have at least one close relative who suffered a stroke, and that was due entirely to an excess of affected female relatives.

"The main implication for clinical practice is that when you consider who is at risk for stroke, it looks like family history in particular is more important in women than men, particularly if there is a family history of stroke in female relatives," said study author Dr. Peter M. Rothwell, director of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.




(Stroke :: Stroke - women more likely to inherit published at SpiritIndia on Saturday, December 23, 2006)

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