BALTIMORE — More adults are surprisingly suffering strokes at younger ages, and scientists have turned their attention more toward this population to find out what’s causing this and why. Now, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers are suggesting that blood type may hold the answer to predicting if someone will suffer a stroke at an earlier age.
According to their findings, individuals under 60 with blood type A may be most at risk.
“The number of people with early strokes is rising. These people are more likely to die from the life-threatening event, and survivors potentially face decades with disability. Despite this, there is little research on the causes of early strokes,” says study co-principal investigator Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH, Professor of Neurology at UMSOM and a neurologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in a media release.
https://studyfinds.org/blood-type-a-stroke-risk/
