Giant hunt for desi clues to stroke, cognition loss

January 31, 2014 12:03

India plans to launch its first giant population study that will track the health of about 15,000 healthy people above 50 for at least five years to pinpoint the risk factors for stroke and cognitive decline.

The study, to be jointly conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here and Erasmus University in the Netherlands, will seek to identify India-specific factors that can influence these two ailments.

"The incidence of stroke in India appears to be different from that in the West," said Kameshwar Prasad, a senior neurologist at AIIMS and the studys principal investigator.

"About half of stroke cases we see in India cant be explained through known risk factors."

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