Surgery May Increase Risk For Stroke

Patients that experience heart flutters or abnormal beats while they’re hospitalized for surgery are at increased risk for having a stroke.  

A new study shows in the year after heart surgery the risk is 30 percent greater, while other surgeries carry twice the risk.

Researchers looked at data from 1 point 7 million people and suspect the stress of surgery is largely to blame. 

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