Infant strokes missed by tests
STROKES may be four times more common among infants than was previously believed, a study suggests.
Methods of identifying strokes in adults could be missing large numbers of cases in children, researchers claim.
Experts in the US studied the health records of 2.3 million children in California.
Using a combination of diagnostic codes on medical charts and data from X-rays and other tests, they confirmed 205 cases of ischemic stroke. These are strokes caused when a clot interrupts the flow of blood to part of the brain.
The incidence rate was 2.4 strokes per 100,000 individuals over the course of a year.
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