Thursday, May 1, 2014

Large Proportion of Strokes may Not be Attributable to Known Causative Risk Factors

A study published in this week's emPLOS Medicine/em suggests that a large proportion of strokes may not be attributable to known causative risk factors. Michiel Bos and colleagues from the Erasmus Medical Center, in the Netherlands, report that only about half of all strokes are attributable to established causative factors for stroke, a much smaller proportion than estimated by previous studies. The researchers reached these conclusions by ...

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