Just the thought of a stroke is frightening. But there is good news—today’s new treatments mean that strokes are treatable…and beatable! The most common type—acute ischemic stroke, which accounts for...
...that were previously handled by damaged sections. Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Numerous studies have shown that stroke rehabilitation programs lead to the best outcomes. Very simply, people who participate in them do...
...I recognize the signs of a stroke in myself or someone else? The Stroke Awareness Foundation (StrokeInfo.org) suggests the BE FAST acronym to help identify the early signs of a...
...lower the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have recently been modified. The use of low-dose aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke has changed as more...
...triggering factor for both ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)—a “ministroke” that lasts only minutes or seconds and is often a warning for full stroke. But it has not...
...Alarming as this sounds, most of these strokes don’t have to happen if pregnant women and new mothers—and their doctors—take the right preventive measures. Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of...
...increase one’s vulnerability to a life-threatening stroke, questions have remained around the specific types of stroke that may be triggered by different infections. Now: To find out exactly which infections...
...a future stroke. Study details: Researchers asked 552 patients who were recovering from a mild/moderate stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), commonly known as a “ministroke,” if they believed...
...risk of ischemic stroke (83 percent of strokes, caused by a blood clot) in middle-aged people. But studies also link the drug to a 66 percent increased risk of hemorrhagic...
...condition that strikes 325,000 people yearly. Ischemic stroke, when blood flow is blocked to the brain, occurring in nearly 800,000 people every year. If you ask most cardiologists what leads...
...a heart attack or stroke. Even though there are techniques to open blocked coronary arteries and others to remove clots from arteries in the brain to treat stroke, CVD remains...
...stroke or heart attack. These benefits are well supported by clinical studies. But can statins benefit older adults who have no history of high cholesterol, heart attack, or stroke? A...
...of stroke. As for sleep apnea itself, the researchers found it triples the risk of stroke. •Suicide. In a 10-year study of more than 14,000 people ages 67 to 90,...
...and higher rates of heart attack, stroke, and ventricular arrhythmia, according to studies in the European Heart Journal and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Anxiety appears to...
...attack or stroke. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found a 30 percent increased risk. Called cardiovascular events, these heart attacks and strokes were most...
