Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. This devastating event occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. The resulting ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Smoking, particularly heavy smoking, is linked to some unexplained strokes in younger adults, mainly in male individuals and in people ages 45 to 49, according to a study published in ...

A 42-year-old man suffered a mini stroke after years of heavy smoking, initially mistaking symptoms for sleeping awkwardly.

A trio of risk factors not only increase your risk of stroke, but they also raise the odds that such a stroke will be debilitating, a new study warns. What are these three big dangers? Smoking, having ...

Researchers report that people under 50 who smoke have a higher risk of having an unexplained stroke. People who smoke heavily — 20 packs of cigarettes a year or more — have even higher stroke risks.

Smoking more than doubles the risk of unexplained strokes among younger adults, a new study warns. And heavy smoking is even worse, with stroke risk more than quadrupled among adults who smoke more ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those who smoked more than 20 packs a year had more than four times the risk for cryptogenic ischemic stroke vs.

A man who thought he had just “slept awkwardly” discovered he had suffered a stroke due to his £200 a month smoking addiction ...

In a recent study published in BMJ Public Health, researchers quantified the effect of smoking on stroke prevalence. They investigated the association between smoking-related characteristics and the ...

New research dismantles the long-held belief that smoking less means less harm. Scientists now say the body suffers significant cardiovascular damage from even low levels of smoking. Researchers from ...