Stroke Prevention
A stroke occurs when blood flow to a part of the brain stops. It can be life-threatening and needs urgent medical help in hospital.
Clopidogrel Tablets
75mg
Clopidogrel tablets for preventing heart attacks and strokes. It irreversibly stops platelets from clumping together, so the effect lasts for the life of the cell.
Key points
- Stroke can affect functions such as speech and movement, and recovery may take a long time.
- Common risk factors include high blood pressure and conditions that promote blood clot formation.
- Prevention often focuses on managing these risk factors over the long term with medicines.
Medicines listed for Stroke Prevention
The products on this page fall into two broad groups. Blood pressure medicines such as Losartan and Hydrochlorothiazide work by lowering the force of blood against artery walls, which is one way to reduce the chance of a stroke. The other group covers medicines that affect how blood clots: apixaban, clopidogrel and dabigatran etexilate appear here as tablets or capsules that may help prevent clots from forming in the brain’s blood vessels.
Stroke prevention is not a single treatment path. The medicines listed for this condition address different underlying risks.