Stroke<\/a> Association, said the findings \u201cillustrate the value of research and the potential it has to change the lives of stroke patients\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cThere is still so much we don\u2019t know about stroke despite it being the leading cause of complex adult disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the UK,\u201d May said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswering these questions and developing effective treatments is crucial to help ensure a good recovery for the 240 people who survive stroke every day in the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cStroke research is chronically underfunded, with less than 1% of total UK research funding spent on the condition. This study \u2013 and more of its kind \u2013 need to be a national priority across the NHS, government and the wider research community with clear pathways to carry breakthrough discoveries from laboratory to patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
More specifically, the study found that the narrowing of large arteries was instead more commonly seen in other types of stroke. Instead, widening arteries showed strong links to lacunar disease, with patients who experienced this being more than four times more likely to have a lacunar stroke.<\/p>\n
Joanna Wardlaw, a professor of applied neuroimaging at the University of Edinburgh and group leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute, said: \u201cThis study provides strong evidence that lacunar stroke is not caused by fatty blockage of larger arteries, but by disease of the small vessels within the brain itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecognising this distinction is crucial, because it explains why conventional treatments like anti-platelet drugs are not as effective for this type of stroke and highlights the urgent need to develop new therapies that target the underlying microvascular damage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of a type of stroke that affects about 35,000 people across the UK each year has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-942050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116528976402201378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}