While that NIH trial was occurring, another shift was taking place: drugs to prevent stroke improved and stroke rates fell.
The device makers' effort is running into a heated debate among physicians over whether drug therapies to prevent stroke have surpassed stents or carotid artery surgery as the best treatment for many patients with artery blockage in the neck.
Clinicians should be aware of the elevated stroke risk in older women with AF, and new strategies should be applied to effectively prevent stroke equally in men and women.
The problem is expected to be more acute in sprawling so-called mega-cities in poor countries, which have more difficulty informing people about how to prevent heat stroke and where infrastructure is lacking.
The group also called for increased use of drugs to prevent MI and stroke.
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Now some doctors are flagging the potential dangers of new implantable gadgets to treat back pain, prevent stroke and soothe severe heartburn.
It may be possible to use a drug to prevent some of the lasting and crippling damage caused by a stroke, according to doctors in the US and Canada.
The study aimed to tell if treating them could prevent a stroke later in life.
The herbal supplement ginkgo biloba might be able to prevent some of the damage caused by a stroke, scientists report.
But Dr Kirkham said that vaccinating children to prevent this was not thought to be a viable option, as the vaccine had also been linked to stroke in certain small groups of children.
The object was to test whether treating patients early and aggressively with a cholesterol-lowering drug would prevent them from having a second heart attack, having a stroke, returning to the hospital or dying.
Low-dose aspirin is already recommended to cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, but there are no national guidelines on who should consider taking it to prevent cancer, or how much to take.
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