Researchers studied 7,000 stroke survivors and found those who had been on anti-psychotics were 1.7 times more likely to suffer a stroke. Subjects with dementia were three and one-half times more likely to have a stroke if they'd taken anti-psychotics.
Authors of the study are urging doctors to prescribe anti-psychotics to their dementia patients only as a last resort.
The study is published in the British Medical Journal.
