Stroke incidence declines among Swedish diabetics

The incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003, according to a population-based study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers also found that survival rates improved leading to a rapid decline in the number of fatal events among diabetic people. "Prior research has suggested that the trend in strokes was increasing, but our study shows declining incidence in stroke for non-diabetic men, both for first and recurrent stroke, and in recurrent strokes in non-diabetic women," said Mats Eliasson, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the study and a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umea...

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