Posted on Thursday, 3rd November 2011 by Hanna
THURSDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) — Smokers are more likely to kick the habit after a stroke if the area of their brain that processes emotions was damaged by the stroke, researchers say. The study also found that people who planned to stop smoking before they had a stroke were much more likely to be [...]
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Posted on Monday, 10th May 2010 by admin
Harvard researchers suggest that our food consumption does indeed influence our risk of suffering a stroke. This matters since stroke is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Scientists looked carefully at 121 different studies—published between 1979 and 2004—on the relationship between dietary factors and stroke. High blood pressure is a major modifiable risk factor [...]
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