Can hormonal changes, fluctuations, raise stroke risk in women?

New Delhi: Strokes have traditionally been considered a problem of the old. Women, like men, have substantial risks too; some of them are related to hormones that are quite different from men. A stroke is the consequence of blocking the blood flow to the brain or when a blood vessel bursts, and the brain cells are deprived of oxygen. Hormonal changes for women can be one of a major factor that changes their risk of a stroke.

In an interaction with News9Live, Dr Rushabh Chheda, Consultant – Brain Spine and Stroke interventional NeuroSurgeon, Fortis Hospital, Mulund and Kalyan, explained how hormonal changes can affect women’s risk of a stroke.

For instance, the body during pregnancy goes through a condition of having a larger blood volume and a hypercoagulable and thrombotic state, and t