{"id":316,"date":"2018-08-15T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-08-15T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:02:21","slug":"around-7000-strokes-each-year-are-being-prevented-uob-research-highlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/08\/15\/around-7000-strokes-each-year-are-being-prevented-uob-research-highlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 7,000 strokes each year are being prevented &#8211; UoB Research Highlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-317 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/08\/GP-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/08\/GP.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/08\/GP-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 85vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Around 7,000 strokes each year are being prevented thanks to GPs more than doubling the number of patients at high risk being prescribed with blood thinning drugs, University of Birmingham researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Adderley, Tom Marshall and Krish Nirantharakumar from the Institute of Applied Health Research at UoB analysed GP records of five million patients from 2000 to 2016. Dr Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar said \u201cWe hope we will continue to see improvements in stroke prevention within the NHS and more research to investigate the management of atrial fibrillation in UK general practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Tom Marshall\u2019s piece for The Conversation:<br \/>\n<a class=\"js-link post-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation%2Ecom%2Fhow-gps-are-preventing-thousands-of-strokes-in-the-uk-99643&amp;urlhash=cbT_&amp;_t=tracking_anet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-gps-are-preventing-thousands-of-strokes-in-the-uk-99643<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Around 7,000 strokes each year are being prevented thanks to GPs more than doubling the number of patients at high risk being prescribed with blood thinning drugs, University of Birmingham researchers have found. Nicola Adderley, Tom Marshall and Krish Nirantharakumar from the Institute of Applied Health Research at UoB analysed GP records &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/08\/15\/around-7000-strokes-each-year-are-being-prevented-uob-research-highlight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Around 7,000 strokes each year are being prevented &#8211; UoB Research Highlight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,5,8],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-birmingham","tag-mph","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}