A recent study published in medical journal Neurology and released by the American Academy of Neurology has found that women who do not receive tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) following a stroke have worse results than men who don’t get the drug. The drug, which dissolves stroke-causing clots, should be given within the first three hours of symptom onset to be effective.
For the study, data on more than 2,100 stroke patients was evaluated by Dr. Michael D. Hill and his colleagues. Women made up about 44 percent of the 232 patients treated with tPA within the three hour window. Six months after their stroke, 70 percent of men who did not receive tPA had good outcomes, while only 58 percent of women who didn’t get the drug had a good outcome.
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