MRI images of the brain

Brain haemorrhage

Stroke due to spontaneous bleeding into the brain, known as “brain haemorrhage”, affects more than 3 million people in the world each year.

  • In total, there are more than 20 million brain haemorrhage survivors in the world. 

  • People who survive brain haemorrhage are at double the risk of suffering heart attack or stroke due to blood clotting, when compared with people of the same age and sex without brain haemorrhage. 

  • Doctors try to prevent these problems by using medicines that lower blood pressure. 

  • Despite taking blood pressure-lowering medicines, heart attack or stroke due to blood clotting affect about 1 in 10 brain haemorrhage survivors every year.