The real cause of a common stroke may have been missed for decades

According to ScienceDaily, a new discovery challenges decades of assumptions about stroke. Researchers have found that a common type of stroke may stem from enlarged and damaged blood vessels deep in the brain—not from the fatty plaque buildup in arteries that doctors have long focused on. The finding helps explain why standard treatments like aspirin often fall short and is spurring research into new therapies that target these tiny brain vessels directly.

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