The explanation can be only a matter of speculation, said the authors of the study, which appeared in the January issue of Stroke, the American Heart Association journal.
In a new study of the technique, conducted in Germany and described in this month's issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, scientists showed for the first time that the brain could reorganize itself after a stroke.
A team of French scientists, writing in the current issue of Stroke, an American Heart Association journal, said that among the people they had studied, those who were vaccinated reduced their risk of stroke by about 40percentt.
But the results involving the 13 patients, reported today in the June issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, join a growing body of evidence that the adult brain is capable of reorganizing itself after injury.
"The underlying hypothesis is that chronic inflammation contributes to coronary artery disease," said Dr. Ann Bolger, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association, which is publishing the new study in the September issue of Stroke, one of its journals.
Rats receiving repeated--but not single--courses of E-selectin had 16 times fewer strokes than those given repeated doses of control substances, the team reports in the September issue of Stroke.
Alcohol intake did not reduce the incidence of dead tissue and therefore presumably didn't reduce the risk of stroke, the team reports in the 7 January 2004 issue of Stroke.
The findings, reported in today's issue of Stroke, suggest that better dental and health care may have contributed to a decline in the number of stroke deaths worldwide in the last several decades.
He had a passion for research and a deep commitment to understanding issues of women with stroke.
