Culprit found for increased stroke injury with diabetes

Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, diabetes and hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose levels) are associated with increases in bleeding during haemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes...

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