There are two main types of strokes: ischemic versus hemorrhagic. An ischemic stroke is when a blood clot travels to the vessels of the brain and the blood supply is cut off. Next up in ...

Ischemic strokes make up 87% of all stroke cases, and are caused when a clot obstructs blood supply to the brain. Hemorrhagic strokes happen when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures, leading to ...

Risk factors for stroke, including environmental, were found to be the most common cause of death for ischemic, intracerebral, and subarachnoid stroke (0.83, 0.5, and 0.17 million, respectively).

Moreover, it is not the most common type of stroke (which is ischemic), but hemorrhagic strokes account for about 13% of all strokes, and aneurysmal rupture is a major cause of these." ...

In the hemorrhagic stroke cohort, almost all risk factors were more common in men vs. women, including hypertension, cancer, chronic kidney disease and diabetes (P < .001 for all), she said.

When glycated hemoglobin (HbA 1c) levels were considered, in T1D hemorrhagic stroke risk was associated with HbA 1c of 52 mmol/mol or greater (HR range, 1.58-2.56; all P ≤.022) and ischemic ...

In particular, recurrent ischemic strokes were down with early DOAC initiation (1.7% vs 2.6%, OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.45-0.96) while symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) was 0.4% in both groups ...

The overall rates of subsequent ischemic stroke and major bleeding were low; by day 180, 4.4% of patients had a new ischemic stroke, and 0.8% had a major hemorrhage.