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Higher Potassium Intake Linked to Reduced Stroke
Higher potassium intake is associated with a lower risk for all stroke and ischemic stroke, as well as all-cause mortality in older women, according to new data from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, the largest prospective study of older women with long-term follow-up.
This latest analysis from the WHI is published online in StrokeSeptember 4, with Arjun Seth, BS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, as first author.
The effect was particularly evident for ischemic stroke in women without hypertension, they report. “In the WHI study of older women aged 50-79, those without hypertension who had higher levels of potassium had a 27% reduced risk of stroke than women with low potassium levels,” Seth told Medscape Medical News.
In the study, higher potassium intake was also associated with a lower risk for small-vessel stroke subtype but was not linked to any reduction in hemorrhagic stroke.
Stroke. Published online September 4, 2014.
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