United States: Cholesterol, blood sugar, and high blood pressure-reducing medications also reduce a person’s chance of having a stroke, as revealed in a new study.
More about the finding
In more detail, they reviewed the medical records of almost 4,900 patients treated for a bleeding stroke, as compared to the nearly 44,000 people who never had a brain aneurysm.
The researchers found out that there are four drugs that appeared to have lessened the adverse impact of having a brain aneurysm after analyzing various other associated risk factors:
Thus, there is a medical cure for high blood pressure, which has been made easily available through drugs such as lisinopril, and this has helped to reduce the risk by thirty-seven percent.
Simvastatin being one of the drugs to cure high cholesterol, was found to have assisted in the reduction of risk to 22 percent.
The medicine used to treat metformin reduced the mortality risk by opening the obscurity of 42 percent.
What more have the experts to say?
According to the researcher Jos Peter Kanning, with the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, “We urgently need new ways to prevent this type of stroke, which occurs at younger ages and with a higher death rate than other types of stroke,” as US News reported.
Kanning added, “Our current surgical treatments for brain aneurysms have a risk of permanent disability and death that often outweighs the potential benefits, so preventing rupture with a noninvasive drug would be very beneficial.”
Side-effects of the four drugs
According to the scientists, the four identified drugs that had an increasing risk of causing a bleeding stroke are the blood thinner warfarin, the antidepressant venlafaxine, the antipsychotic prochlorperazine, and the painkiller co-codamol.
The study findings were published on June 5 in the journal Neurology, which revealed a link between those drugs and the risk for stroke, as the researchers pointed out.
Kanning added, “Future research is needed to investigate these associations and determine whether these drugs are effective in reducing the risk of hemorrhagic stroke,” as US News reported.
“This work could also help us identify additional risk factors for subarachnoid hemorrhage, potentially leading to new therapies to manage aneurysms,” he continued.
More about Brain aneurysms
A brain aneurysm occurs as a result, it is a ballooned structure in the blood vessel in the brain.
Around 30,000 American population experience a ruptured brain aneurysm every year, and the aneurysm rupture incidence per year ranges from 8000-10000 per one hundred thousand people.
On average, ruptured cerebral aneurysms are always very grave and often deadly and, therefore, need to be dealt with as soon as possible.