Exercise for stroke prevention: The neglected prescription

For over a decade, clinicians have used multimodal pharmacologic therapy for optimal stroke prevention based in part on promising results from clinical trials demonstrating the value of blood pressure and cholesterol lowering for secondary stroke prevention. Patients are typically treated with a cocktail of medications, including antithrombotic agents, antihypertensives, and statins.1

Source: Neurology - January 22, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Chaturvedi, S., Nahab, F. Tags: Stroke prevention, Infarction EDITORIALS Source Type: research