Daily fruit, vegetable consumption may reduce risk of stroke.

ABC World News (5/8, story 10, 0:20, Sawyer) reported, “A new medical review says fruit every day can decrease the risk of stroke.”

        Reuters (5/9, Seaman) reports that for the study, published online in Stroke, investigators looked at data from 20 studies that included a total of more than 760,000 participants.

        The ABC News (5/8, Lalani) “Medical Unit” blog reports that the researchers found that “eating 200 grams of fruit a day – the equivalent of two small apples – can” reduce an individual’s “stroke risk by almost a third.” Meanwhile, “stroke risk drops 11 percent with every 200 grams of vegetables consumed daily, according to the study.” Medscape (5/9, Brooks) and HealthDay (5/9, Preidt) also cover the story.