Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Comment: Intracerebral hemorrhage incidence declines, but it is still highly fatal

Comment: Intracerebral hemorrhage incidence declines, but it is still highly fatal
Neurology current issue

Overall stroke mortality has declined over the last decades—a welcome trend.1 However, recent trends in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) incidence are not as clear. On the one hand, there has been increasingly good population control of hypertension; on the other hand, there is increasing use of anticoagulants and antithrombotic drugs, an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, and changing racial and ethnic demographics.



Original Article: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/short/82/24/2185?rss=1

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