There\u2019s new evidence that adults who experience the flu or\nflu-like symptoms may have a greater risk of stroke. The new study supports\nearlier research that found similar results in adults and also in children.\nWhile those previous studies were smaller, the new research from a team at New\nYork\u2019s Columbia University is the largest of its kind so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The link between\nflu-like symptoms and stroke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For this research, a team looked at the medical records of\nmore than 30,000 people who had been admitted to the hospital for an ischemic\nstroke. Then they checked to see if any of those people had been hospitalized\nwith flu-like symptoms in the two years prior to the stroke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They found that there was a nearly 40% greater chance of\nhaving a stroke within 15 days of being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. In\naddition, the risk for stroke was increased for up to an entire year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The results were the same regardless of the person\u2019s sex,\nrace or location (rural vs. urban).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team theorizes that inflammation caused by whatever\ncreates the flu-like infection may be to blame for the higher risk of stroke.\nBut there\u2019s another possible link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arterial tears in the\nflu and neck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Another Columbia University researcher, Madeleine Hunter,\nand her team looked at 3,861 cases of first nontraumatic cervical artery\ndissection that took place in New York between 2006 and 2014. This medical\ncondition occurs when an artery in the neck tears its lining, causing the blood\nflow to become restricted or stop altogether. It\u2019s a risk factor for stroke at\nany age, but especially in people between ages 15 and 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hunter\u2019s team found that almost 50% of those who had\nexperienced an arterial tear had the flu or flu-like symptoms in the three years\nbefore the incident. Even more shocking: the most common time they experienced\na flu-like illness was up to one month before the cervical artery dissection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur results suggest that the risk of dissection fades over\ntime after the flu,\u201d explains Hunter. \u201cThis trend indicates that flu-like\nillnesses may indeed trigger dissection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s new evidence that adults who experience the flu or flu-like symptoms may have a greater risk of stroke. The new study supports earlier research that found similar results in adults and also in children. While those previous studies were smaller, the new research from a team at New York\u2019s Columbia University is the largest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[756,750,719],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness","tag-flu","tag-stroke","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}