Women often delay seeking care for stroke symptoms
SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) - Women take longer than men to get to the hospital when they experience stroke symptoms and they have worse neurological d...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) – Women take longer than men to get to the hospital when they experience stroke symptoms and they have worse neurological deficits, investigators reported here at the International Stroke Conference 2009, sponsored by the American Stroke Association.
“Once they arrived at the hospital, women received the same treatment — the same speed of evaluation, and the same rate of treatment — but women took longer to get to the hospital,” said Dr. Louise D. McCullough of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.
