美科学家发现:接受脑卒中筛查的女性比男性少

根据一项最新研究发现:患脑卒中的女性接受过常规诊断筛查的数量要比男性要少许多.

在2005年4月美国迈阿密举行的美国神经病学年会上的一项报道显示:在一项大约包括400例脑卒中患者中,脑卒中发作的女性只有60%接受过颈动脉超声影像检查,而男性有71%.同样地,只有48%的女性接受过心脏超声检查寻找可能转移至大脑的血凝块,而男性有57%.

但是,来自密歇根大学医学院和公共健康学院的Lewis Morgenstern博士发现:在接受心电图和核磁共振检查频率方面,女性与男性则没有太大区别.该项研究包括了220例女性和161例男性,平均中位数年龄是74.3岁,研究时间是2000年～2002年之间.

该项研究追随了较早期由一个相同研究小组开展的研究,证实女性脑卒中患者比男性花了更多时间去医院,女性患者看起来不如男性迅速.根据Morgenstern博士的说法,女性死于脑卒中比男性更多.在任何年龄阶段,男性患脑卒中都比女性要多;但是,Morgenstern博士说,由于女性寿命更长,她们比男性的总体健康负担更高.【本文由美迪医疗网成扬编译】
 
Fewer Women Than Men Screened for Stroke.
 
Women who have a stroke are less apt to have the conventional diagnostic screening tests than men, according to new research.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, in Miami (FL, USA) in April 2005, revealed that in a study of almost 400 stroke patients, only 60% of women who suffered a stroke underwent carotid ultrasound imaging of the neck arteries compared with 71% of men. Correspondingly, 48% of women underwent an ultrasound scan of the heart looking for blood clots that could move to the brain, compared with 57% of men.

Dr. Lewis Morgenstern, from the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), however, found no considerable differences between women and men in the frequency of electrocardiogram (ECG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams. The study was comprised of 220 women and 161 men, with a median age of 74.3 years, between the years of 2000 and 2002.

The study follows earlier studies by the same group that demonstrated female stroke patients took more time to go to the hospital than did the men, and once there, they were not seen as rapidly as the men. More women die of stroke than men, according to Dr. Morgenstern; 61% of deaths caused by stroke occur in women in the United States yearly. At any age, men have more strokes than women; however, because women live longer, they have a higher total health burden than men, according to Dr. Morgenstern.