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Nicotine May Accelerate Atherosclerosis, May Be as Dangerous as Tar
• Heart • • Tobacco & Marijuana • • Stroke • Sep 12 07
It’s well known that smoking cigarettes increases risk for a host of serious health problems from cancer to heart disease. Now a new study…
Patients who stop using statins after stroke increase risk of death
• Neurology • • Stroke • Aug 31 07
Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs within a year of surviving a stroke had a two-fold increased risk of death, researchers reported in Stroke:…
High alcohol consumption increases stroke risk among Chinese men
• Neurology • • Stroke • Aug 21 07
Heavy drinking may increase the risk of stroke in Chinese men and should be targeted for prevention strategies, according to a new study to…
Preventing Another Stroke: What You Should Know
• Neurology • • Stroke • Aug 07 07
What is a stroke?
A stroke happens when an area of the brain is damaged, this usually happens when blood does not reach…
Screening Improves Detection of Major Stroke Risk Factor
• Stroke • Aug 03 07
Actively screening people aged 65 or over in the community improves the detection of atrial fibrillation (irregular heart rhythm), a major risk factor for…
“Preconditioning” Helps Protect Brain’s Blood Vessels from Stroke
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jul 19 07
Challenging brain tissue with a small noxious stimulus beforehand gives it a resilience that can lessen damage to blood vessels during a stroke, report…
Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke in Pediatrics
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for patients with acute stroke began in the eighties. After several small series and some pilot trials, the…
Is It Time for a Large, Collaborative Study of Pediatric Stroke?
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Childhood stroke, although rare, results in significant mortality and long-term morbidity. The lack of information about risk factors for childhood stroke recently led an…
Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 19 07
Keeping cool on hot, humid summer days is good advice for more reasons than sheer comfort. It’s vital for good health - even staying…
Stroke study sheds light on left-right brain divide
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 11 07
Research into the effects of strokes has furthered our understanding of the different roles of the left and right sides of our brains. A…
Use Caution with All Pain Medications
• Drug News • • Pain • • Stroke • May 31 07
Not long ago, choosing a pain reliever meant finding one that eased your pain without being too hard on the stomach. Now, research suggests…
Limiting stroke damage is focus of study
• Stroke • May 30 07
Brain damage that occurs even days after a stroke, increasing stroke size and devastation, is the focus of researchers trying to identify new treatments.
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Lowering Body Temperature Could Aid Standard Stroke Treatment
• Neurology • • Stroke • May 17 07
University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists have developed a model that could help physicians combine current clot-busting medication with below-normal body temperatures (hypothermia) to improve…
Herbal Medicine Used for Chinese Stroke Patients Lacks Strong Evidence
• Alternative Medicine • • Stroke • Apr 27 07
The herbal medicine Dan Shen, a standard treatment for ischemic stroke in China, lacks strong scientific evidence to support such use, according a new…
Good News for Rural Stroke Patients: Telephone Treatment Works
• Stroke • Apr 24 07
Stroke patients in rural hospitals can get safe, effective treatment with the use of a clot-busting drug when a doctor from a larger hospital…
Dental X-Rays of carotid artery not enough to estimate stroke risk
• Stroke • Apr 20 07
Detection of calcified tissue in the carotid artery by dental x-rays is not enough evidence to estimate a patient’s stroke risk was the conclusion…
Assessing plaque deposits may help determine stroke risk
• Stroke • Mar 16 07
A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System may change the way physicians assess a patient’s risk of having a…
Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines
• Stroke • Feb 27 07
Many stroke patients have cholesterol higher than national guidelines recommend that, if managed, may have prevented the stroke from happening, according to a study…
Healthy Women with High Cholesterol at Increased Risk of Stroke
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Feb 20 07
Healthy women with no history of heart disease or stroke significantly increase their chances of having a stroke if they have high cholesterol, according…
Taking AIM at post-stroke depression
• Depression • • Stroke • Feb 16 07
Activating patients and developing a monitoring and evaluation system was highly effective in ending or reducing post-stroke depression in patients enrolled in the largest…
Stents Benefit People at High Risk of Stroke
• Stroke • Feb 05 07
People at high risk of stroke due to blocked blood vessels in the brain benefit from successful stent placement, according to a study published…
Emergency care key for high pressure in brain
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Neurology • • Stroke • Jan 29 07
People who experience severe, rapidly progressing loss of vision should seek immediate medical attention, because this may signal elevated pressure in the brain…
New tool improves prediction of stroke risk
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Neurology • • Stroke • Jan 26 07
A new simple scoring system for use by physicians predicts early risk of stroke following a serious condition named transient ischemic attack, known as…
Stroke risk higher in less well-educated women
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Jan 16 07
A study involving Swedish women indicates that the risk of stroke has a marked inverse correlation with years of education, European researchers report in…
Hereditary stroke more common in women
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Dec 28 06
Women are more likely than men to inherit an increased risk of having a stroke, new research indicates.
The findings, which appear in the…