Study: Statins can lower risk of deadliest kind of stroke
Study: Statins can lower risk of deadliest kind of stroke
According to a Journal Neurology study, the risk of ischemic stroke dropped 17% when patients used statins for any period of time.
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0 -> right y'all good morning I'm Sonia Azad
2.04 -> it is time for your Monday morning
3.12 -> health check we begin with a new study
4.86 -> showing statins can lower the risk of
7.62 -> the deadliest type of stroke yeah
9.9 -> statins are those cholesterol lowering
12.36 -> drugs now this stroke that I'm talking
14.94 -> about is called an ischemic stroke and
16.74 -> it's caused when blood from an artery
18.8 -> bleeds in the brain it's the second most
21.72 -> common stroke after a blood clot the new
24.779 -> study in the journal neurology used
26.88 -> prescription data of more than 88 000
29.64 -> people with no stroke history and found
31.679 -> the risk dropped to 17 percent when they
35.64 -> used statins for any period of time
38.04 -> those who used statins for more than
40.32 -> five years had a 33 percent lower risk
43.14 -> of a bleeding stroke
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