Stroke

Certain medications increase the chances of clot formation, and therefore yourchances for a stroke. Birth control pills can cause blood clots, especiallyin woman who smoke and who are older than 35.

Men have more strokes than women. But, women have a risk of stroke during pregnancy and the weeks immediately after pregnancy.

Cocaine use, alcohol abuse, head injury, and bleeding disorders increase the risk of bleeding into the brain.

See also:

• Stroke secondary to carotid dissection (bleeding from the carotid arteries)
• Stroke secondary to carotid stenosis (narrowing of the carotid arteries)
• Stroke secondary to cocaine use
• Stroke secondary to FMD (fibromuscular dysplasia)
• Stroke secondary to syphilis
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)

American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics --2005 Update. Dallas, Texas: American Heart Association; 2005.

Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, eds. Rosen?s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 5^th Ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 2002.

Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22^nd Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2004.

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