

Provide contact details for the corresponding author (including full postal and email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers). Provide an abstract of the manuscript not to exceed 150 words and 3-6 keywords that describe your paper - for indexing and abstracting services. Presentation and Formatting Abstract & keywords Cham: Springer International Publishing 2015. Secondary prevention of stroke in the elderly: focus on drug therapy. Canberra, ACT: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2013. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. 2 3 The preventive actions of statins in patients have been mainly explained by the lipid-lowering effect theory.


In several trials, statins have been shown to reduce the risk of having a first or recurrent ischemic stroke. Statins are a class of drugs that reduce the levels of lipids in the blood. 1 On a positive note, stroke death rates in Australia fell by 70% between 19. Stroke is one of the leading causes of chronic disability and death worldwide, with the incidence progressively increasing with age. In the body of the essay/text, there are consecutively numbered references. At the end of the essay, there is a numbered reference list in the order cited in the essay/text.

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