A new study has found dangerously high levels of stroke recurrence and death among patients who take DOAC or VKA therapy, which researchers say demonstrates an unmet medical need.
Women ages 35 years and younger were 44% more likely to have an ischemic stroke (caused by blocked blood vessels in the brain) than their male counterparts, according to a new review of more than a dozen international studies on sex differences in stroke occurrence, published today in a Go Red for Women 2022 spotlight issue of Stroke, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
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DALLAS, Jan. 25, 2021 The continued global burden of stroke and how it disproportionately affects women are highlighted in new science published online today in the February issue of
Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
Stroke editors selected nine manuscripts focused on stroke disparities in women in this collaboration with Go Red for Women®, the Association s global movement to end heart disease and stroke in women. Stroke continues to be a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with women being more adversely affected by the global burden of stroke, said Stroke Editor-In-Chief Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., M.S., FAHA, a past president of the American Heart Association. As our population ages, the number of stroke survivors will continue to rise, especially among women. We must include more women in stroke research so we can enhance the critical evidence necessary to provide the appropriate stroke