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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2001;285:1564-1565.

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Fort Lauderdale, Fla—Patients, members of their families, and clinicians need to become more aware of "silent strokes" as the cause of such symptoms as mood disorders, memory loss, and difficulty walking, said researchers at last month's American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference.

Such awareness, said Megan C. Leary, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, is important because the annual burden of stroke is substantially higher than suggested by estimates based solely on clinically manifested events and suggests that greater research and clinical resources should be allocated to stroke prevention and treatment.

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Leary defined silent stroke as a focal brain injury, resulting from blockage or rupture of a blood vessel, that occurs without acute symptoms. She presented data that estimated that 21 800 000 silent strokes occurred in the United States in 1998. The reported number of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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