Symptoms of undiagnosed stroke are commonplace in the general population
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Undiagnosed strokes are common—using MRI, the 1998 ARIC study documented clinically silent cerebral infarctions in 11% of adults aged 55–64 years. The REGARDS study, published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, set out to further investigate the prevalence of stroke symptoms in a general US population (i.e. people who had not been diagnosed with stroke or a transient ischemic attack) and the association of these symptoms with recognized risk factors, as defined by the Framingham stroke risk score. Information was first obtained by telephone interview, with a physical examination performed 3–4 weeks later. A final cohort of 18,462 participants (mean age 65.8 years) was available for analysis.
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