Heart Rhythm Disorder May Raise Older Women’s Stroke Risk

<p>FRIDAY, Jun 1 (HealthDay News) — Women with a heart rhythm
disorder called <span>atrial fibrillation</span> are somewhat some-more expected to humour a<span>stroke</span> than group with a condition, according to a new study.</p>
<p>The anticipating suggests that doctors need to cruise patients’ sex when
making decisions about treatment, a researchers said. Atrial
fibrillation raises a risk of blood clots and stroke, and people with
the condition are infrequently prescribed anti-clotting drugs.</p>
<p>“In equivocal situations, in that a preference about either to give
anticoagulation diagnosis weighs in a balance, we advise that female
sex should substantially tip a scale towards initiating treatment,” the
researchers from <span>Karolinska Institute</span> in Sweden and University of
Birmingham in England wrote in a news published online May 31 inBMJ.</p>
<p>The investigate enclosed some-more than 100,000 ...