Swedish Diabetics Experience Decline In Stroke Incidence

�The relative incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003, according to a population-based study promulgated in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.



Researchers also launch that survival rates improved leading to a rapid decline in the number of calamitous events among diabetic people.



"Prior research has suggested that the drift in strokes was increasing, but our study shows declining incidence in stroke for non-diabetic men, both for first and recurrent stroke, and in repeated strokes in non-diabetic women," said Mats Eliasson, M.D., Ph.D., coauthor of the study and a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Ume� University and the Department of Medicine at Sunderby Hospital in Lule� Sweden.



The reasons for the overall decline of strokes among diabetics ar uncertain. The decline may be the result of more intensive treatment of hypertension in diabetics and smoking surcease and cholesterol-lowering efforts, Eliasson said.



"The impressive decline in smoking and large decreases in cholesterol levels, and to a lesser arcdegree blood

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