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Article: Lower Body Temperature Lowers Stroke Death Rate
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 4, 1998
CopyrightCopyright 1998 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abnormally high body temperature within 24 hours of having a
stroke may increase risk for death; While reducing body temperature
immediately after a stroke can reduce the death rate from stroke,
say
two studies carried in Friday's Stroke, Journal of the American
Heart
Association.
Spanish researchers examining 260 patients with stroke found the
relationship between brain damage and high body temperature is
greater when the temperature increase occurs immediately after the