Ritalin To Stroke Victims
If you have a sibling who's suffered a stroke, you may be more likely to have one as well, a new study says. Researchers looked at stroke risk in 807 siblings of 181 people who had strokes in one Texas county. The results showed that brothers and sisters of the stroke victims were nearly twice as likely as the general U.S. population to also have a stroke.
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