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Acquired brain injury patients may not be taking the medicine that has been prescribed them, a new study reveals.

A quarter of people of who suffer a stroke - one of the major causes of brain injury - stop taking their medication within three months, according to research due to be published in the Archives of Neurology journal.

The authors found that there were a number of factors that determined whether patients were likely to keep taking their secondary stroke prevention medicine, such as understanding why they were required to take the medicine and how to refill prescriptions.

In the US, there are around 180,000 recurrent strokes every year, the researchers point out.

"The assessment of and reasons for non-persistence at three months post-stroke are important because the risk of recurrent stroke is greatest during this period," the authors said.

A stroke occurs when the supply of blood to an area of brain tissue is interrupted, by a blood clot for example.

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