Stroke (Risk Factors)

Smoking Intensifies Risk of Stroke in Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 10th, 1997

Healthy post-menopausal women with a history of smoking may have a higher risk of developing blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, placing them at a higher risk of stroke than women who have never smoked.

This according to Pittsburgh researchers in the current March 10, 1997 issue of the American Heart Association journal Stroke.

Holly C. Lassila, Dr. P.H., and her colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, studied certain risk factors for heart attack and stroke in 200 women. Each woman was evaluated before menopause, one year after menopause and either five or eight years after menopause. The...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-03-10)

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