According to Korean research on Cold Drugs with phenylpropanolamine (PPA) come into views to boost the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in young and middle-age women.

Woo Yoon of Seoul National University Hospital told Reuters Health that the “association between diet pills containing large doses of PPA and brain hemorrhage was already proven, our study reveals that even smaller doses of PPA in cold remedies can increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.”

Studied has been done on 940 patients with hemorrhagic stroke, and reported “Overall, 1.7 percent of the women were exposed to PPA within 14 days of the stroke, compared with 0.7 percent of controls, in the 14 days prior to the index date. All of these exposures were due to cold remedies containing PPA. None of the subjects were using appetite suppressants.”

The ratio came of risks just double than normal, among the women, the stroke was augmented by 4-fold, but the risk is very less among men. But in recent studies the risk is also found in some men also.

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