ASA: Stroke Symptoms in Women Often Atypical - CME Teaching Brief- MedPage Today
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 -- Women do not always show textbook examples of stroke symptoms to emergency department physicians, researchers said here.
In a study of more than 1,700 patients with confirmed stroke, women were 33% less likely than men to have any of the five classical warning signs as the chief complaint, said Julia W. Gargano, M.S., of Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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