Discovered new risk factors for stroke

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A genetic study with samples of more than half a million people has allowed to identify new risk factors for stroke. The researchers have analyzed DNA samples of 520,000 people around the world, some healthy and others who had had stroke, and found 22 genetic factors that can trigger stroke.

According to one of the researchers who led the study, Dr. Israel Fernández of Vall d'Hebron Hospital, this "opens the door to finding other therapeutic targets and to develop new drugs to prevent stroke."

Stroke is the second most common cause of death in the world, but there are still many questions about its molecular behavior and this makes it difficult to develop medications to prevent it.

This is the largest genetic study ever done on stroke.

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