A new study has found that more women than men who have had a stroke do not take the medications they need to prevent another stroke.
80 percent of the women in the study reported that they did not take the cholesterol-lowering medications prescribed after their first stroke.
According to a report in the Journal of the American Heart Association, 53 percent of the women also did not take blood thinners, which further reduce the risk of another stroke.
The researchers said the findings were based on Mexican-American women. Mexican-American women made up 58 percent of the study population.
The Mexican-American women in the study were the majority of caregivers for other family members in the United States, Chen, a doctor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in a news release.
As a result, they fail to prioritize and manage their health and are more likely to be non-adherent in taking their stroke medications.
