Gastrointestinal bleeding after stroke may increase risk of death

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

People who have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding after a stroke are more likely to die or become severely disabled than stroke sufferers with no GI bleeding, according to a study published in the August 6, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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