Along with heart disease and cancer, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability, but money spent on stroke research in Britain and other countries is 20-50 times less than for the other disorders. In a report in the medical journal the Lancet, Rothwell said the same pattern of underfunding was evident in the United States. Strokes occur when a blood clot forms in a damaged vessel and blocks the flow of blood to the brain, or when a damaged vessel in the brain bursts. Rothwell and his colleague Professor Charles Warlow, of Edinburgh University in Scotland, believe a lack of understanding is partly responsible to the funding problem. It's presumably partly ageism.
Stroke tends to affect older people.
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