STROKE RISK? THE EYES HAVE IT
Your eyes can tell a lot about you, perhaps even your future risk of stroke. A seven-year study of 3,654 adults, published in the journal Neurology, found that people who had retinopathy, or damage in the small blood vessels of the retina, were at least 70% more likely than the rest of us to have a stroke.
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