Monday, 1 May 2017

Stroke prevention may also reduce dementia

(University of Western Ontario) Ontario's stroke prevention strategy appears to have had an unexpected, beneficial side effect: a reduction also in the incidence of dementia among older seniors. A new paper by researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute is the first to look at the demographics of both stroke and dementia across Ontario since the province pioneered Canada's first stroke prevention strategy in 2000.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2pol0EH

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