Increased Strokes Linked With China’s Economic Prosperity
Mar 3rd 2008Drug InformationRehabilitation
A side effect of economic prosperity may be an increased risk of the most common type of strokes, researchers from China report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.And this finding should be regarded as “an opportunity for health policy leaders to react” according to an accompanying editorial.In the study, the rate of blood clot-caused (ischemic) strokes in China increased by almost 9 percent per year between 1984 and 2004.
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