What Does Diabetes Have to do With Patients with Stroke?

摘要

The risk of stroke is increased 2.9-fold among persons, with diabetes, accounting for 15% to 27% of all incident strokes.1 Stroke risk is limited to ischemic, not hemorrhagic, events. In a separate systematic review and meta-analysis of 64 cohorts including 775,385 individuals, the relative risk of diabetes-related stroke was calculated at 2.28 in women and 1.83 in men.2