HealthDay - Blood Thinner Linked to Increased Brain Bleeding
The amount of bleeding in the brain that occurs when a blood vessel bursts and causes a stroke is greater for some people who take the clot-preventing drug warfarin (Coumadin), a new study shows.
It’s not a surprising finding, said Dr. Daniel Woo, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati and co-author of the report in the Sept. 30 issue of Neurology, since it’s long been established that the risk of death from such a stroke is greater for people taking warfarin.
But there has been a debate about whether the increased risk is due to an increased volume of blood spewed into the brain. The study of 258 people who had brain hemorrhages appears to settle the issue, Woo said: “We did find a larger volume of hemorrhage in these patients.”
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