The risk of death from a stroke in the UK has dropped by a quarter saving thousands of lives, researchers have revealed. Thousands more patients each year are surviving strokes thanks to improvements in care and medication and the numbers facing disability have also fallen.
Researchers have found that the risk of death from a stroke dropped by 24 per cent, between 2000 and 2015. The study conducted by Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust suggests that better treatment and care have reduced the death rate.
This includes higher admission rates to hospital, increased use of CT and MRI scans, and more frequent treatment with thrombolytic and anticoagulant medications in the acute phase of the stroke.