Suffer stroke symptoms? Second strokes often follow within hours

Monday, June 1, 2009 - 16:35 in Health & Medicine

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- About half of all people who have a major stroke following a warning stroke (a transient ischemic attack or mild stroke) have it within 24 hours of the first event, according to research published in the June 2, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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