Port St. Lucie News Ft. But researchers cautioned the study does not mean people should stop trying to reduce the amount of saturated fat in their diets. We still want people to eat a low saturated fat diet. The researchers analyzed data from the long-running Nurses' Health Study that began in 1980 with 85,764 women. Most strokes are ischemic strokes, in which an artery carrying blood to the brain is blocked.
Intraparenchymal hemorrhage is one of the rarer forms of hemorrhagic stroke.
The increased stroke risk in the low-fat group occurred primarily among women with high blood pressure. Stampfer said the extremely low fat intake, combined with high blood pressure, might contribute to a structural weakness in blood vessels that causes them to rupture. The findings were published in today's issue of Circulation , a journal of the American Heart Association. People trying to lower their risk of a stroke by reducing saturated fat should try to do it in moderation, Stampfer said. Please read it.