jerrab » 06 Dec 2024, 2:28 pm » wrote: ↑
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/health/s ... index.html
CNN — Were the strokes that killed US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick after the January 6 insurrection really natural? Some neurologists don’t think so.Sicknick suffered strokes that killed him, according to the medical examiner’s office. However, the medical examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz, told the
Washington Post, that “all that transpired” on January 6 “played a role in his condition.”
-------------The country has been waiting weeks to learn the official manner of death. The FBI and District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department were
jointly investigating the case. Initially, the Capitol Police said in a statement that he died “due to injuries sustained while on-duty.”The medical examiners had not found
any signs of blunt force trauma, but a stroke can follow a traumatic situation, several experts told CNN.“Stress is the body’s natural response to a real or perceived threat. A riot is an example of an acute stressor, and this type of event could trigger the heart to work harder, by increasing heart rate and blood pressure, which could conceivably trigger the formation of a clot that travels to the brain and causes a stroke,” said
Lindsey Rosman, an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Rosman did not examine the patient or the medical records, but works on stroke research.