Did you know that blood type may predict the risk of early stroke before age 60?
A new meta-analysis led by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers has found that human blood type could be associated with early onset ischemic stroke, specifically occurring in young adults before the age of 60.
Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH, Professor of Neurology at UMSOM states that early onset stroke (or early stroke) is increasing in people, and there is little research about why this happens.
Ischemic stroke is a disorder that occurs when blood cannot be transmitted in arteries leading to the brain because of blood clots. Early stroke is a stroke that appears in young people before age 60, and late onset stroke (or late stroke) is likely to appear in older people….