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What We Know and What We Don't Know About Preventing Stroke
As the developing world undergoes an epidemiological transition and the known causes of cardiovascular disease are increasingly understood, are there signs that the efforts to prevent stroke will need to find new targets?
In light of recent research by Bos and colleagues, Consulting Editor Druin Burch and the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the uncertainty over some of the causes of cerebrovascular disease and how future prevention strategies will be influenced by shifting patterns of population attributable risk.
Image Credit: Leon Brocard, Jon Olav Eikenes, Daniel Oines, & Pete at Flickr
Citation: (2014) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 11(4) April 2014. PLoS Med 11(4): ev11.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v11.i04
Published: April 29, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
As the developing world undergoes an epidemiological transition and the known causes of cardiovascular disease are increasingly understood, are there signs that the efforts to prevent stroke will need to find new targets?
In light of recent research by Bos and colleagues, Consulting Editor Druin Burch and the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the uncertainty over some of the causes of cerebrovascular disease and how future prevention strategies will be influenced by shifting patterns of population attributable risk.
Image Credit: Leon Brocard, Jon Olav Eikenes, Daniel Oines, & Pete at Flickr