Tag: Strokes

  • Nation & World

    Inflammation reduction cuts risk of heart attack, stroke

    Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s clinical trial confirms its “inflammatory hypothesis” — reducing inflammation cuts the risk of future cardiovascular events.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Aura’ migraines a stroke risk

    Young women who have migraines with auras are twice as likely to have a stroke, researchers have confirmed. The investigators from the US, France and Germany did not find any link between migraines and heart attacks or death due to cardiovascular disease but there was a 30% increase in the risk of angina (heart pain).

    1 minute