According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people is at risk of stroke during their lifetime. What's even worse is that certain factors can increase your susceptibility to life ...

Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and smoking are strongly associated with an increased risk for severe vs nonsevere stroke.

Stroke volume is maintained in the elderly person by an increase in end-diastolic volume through the Frank-Starling mechanism at every level of exercise. In younger subjects the stroke volume is ...

Whereas earlier clinical trials indicated that lowering of blood pressure is the decisive factor affecting stroke prevention, more recent studies using angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and ...

Older adults whose parents divorced when they were kids are nearly two-thirds more likely to have a stroke in later life, a study of more than 13,000 Americans suggests. This substantially ...