Friday, January 12, 2007

hemorrhagic stroke

Article in Neurology that finds a quintupling of the rate of hemorrhagic stroke over a period of 10 years. The rate for patients over 80 went from 2.5/100,000 to 45.9/100,000.During the same period in the US the use of warfarin quadrupled.

Drug linked to rise in brain hemorrhages

The increasing incidence of anticoagulant-associated intracerebral hemorrhage

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