date:Jan 23, 2013
f stroke, coronary heart disease or cancer at baseline. During an 11-year follow-up, 3,097 incident cases of stroke, including 2,482 cerebral infarctions and 450 intracerebral hemorrhages, were registered.
Men with the highest quintiles of heme iron intake were 16% and 15% more likely to suffer total stroke and cerebral infarction, respectively, compared to men with the lowest quintiles of heme iron intake. Among men with normal body mass indexes, those with the highest quintiles of heme iron i