Ischemic stroke: How to keep the first one from happening: Postgraduate Medicine: Vol 90, No 8

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Atherosclerosis in the large carotid and cerebral vessels resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain is the most common cause of ischemic stroke. Certain risk factors (ie, male sex and advanced age) cannot be changed. However, others (ie, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and smoking) may be modified. Dr Bundlie describes the present state of research on preventing a first stroke by controlling these risk factors.

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