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Poststroke Depression Does Not Decrease Women’s Compliance With Medications

 After a stroke, women are more likely to become depressed and have poorer quality of life than men, but depressed men are more likely to stop taking their stroke-prevention medications, a new study found. Excerpt: It’s important to recognize that women are more likely to be depressed and to have poor quality of life after a stroke,” lead author Cheryl Bushnell, MD, associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, NC, said in an interview with Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery. “But we’ve been focusing on women recently, and I don’t think we fully understand what’s happening in men. If they’re deciding they don’t need their medications, that’s a problem.”