Women smokers 4 times as likely as non-smokers to harbour brain aneurysm

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/b-ws4072320.php

News Release 27-Jul-2020
BMJ


Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm--a weakened bulging artery--in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

And this risk is even greater--7 times as high--if they also have high blood pressure, the findings indicate.

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