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by Gloria Gamat on June 16, 2007
Such were the findings of a new University of Alberta research.
According to Dr. Thomas Jeerakathil, an assistant professor in Neurology, at the University of Alberta:
"What we found is that 9.1 per cent of the diabetes cohort had a stroke within the first five years of their diagnosis.
We also found that compared to persons from the general population of a similar age, the relative risk for stroke was much greater in younger persons with diabetes than for older persons.
We hope our findings will help to dispel the notion that the risk of stroke occurs only in the long term and will improve the motivation of both patients and health care providers to aggressively control cardiovascular risk factors soon after diagnosis."
Findings of this research recently appeared in the American Heart Association's Stroke journal.
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