Prevent A Second Stroke
Prevent A Second Stroke
Once someone suffers a stroke, their chances of having another stroke skyrocket. Until now doctors have not known the best way to prevent these second strokes.
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" stroke patient have a significantly increased risk for suffering a second stroke and until now doctors haven't known how to prevent that from happening the result of a large nationwide clinical trial killing ten medical therapy worked better than surgically propping open blocked arteries in the brain with that then. The study compared -- stroke patients who were given intensive medical therapy meaning they took drugs to control their blood pressure cholesterol and smoking habit to patients who underwent attempt procedure and were given those drugs. They found patient to -- a -- were two times more likely to suffer a stroke or die within thirty days their risk of death with also hired nearly a year after the procedure past studies on and let -- researchers to believe that procedure would be the most beneficial -- experts say this study will change the way doctors treat stroke patient. Experts say the risk of death is almost always higher among patients who undergo surgery they say that that -- plaque in the brain and caught another stroke they think more of long term studies are needed before doctors without a -- in stroke patient to undergo this stent procedure."
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