Cdc.gov: March 26 – April 1 is World Salt Awareness Week. There is strong evidence that eating too much sodium raises blood pressure, and high blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke. About 9 in 10 Americans aged 2 years and older eat too much sodium. Most of the sodium we eat […]
A Prospective Study and Meta-analysis Stroke.ahajournals.org: Qi Sun, MD, ScD; An Pan, PhD; Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD; JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH; Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH., March 22, 2012. Background and Purpose—Despite evidence suggesting that vitamin D deficiency may lead to elevated cardiovascular disease risk, results regarding the association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels with […]
Biomedcentral.com: Angel Vila-Corcoles, Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Antonia Gutierrez-Perez, Angel Vila-Rovira, Frederic Gomez, Xavier Raga, Cinta de Diego, Eva Satue, Elisabet Salsench and Epivac Study Group, March 22, 2012. Conflicting results have been recently reported evaluating the relationship between pneumococcal vaccination and the risk of thrombotic vascular events. This study assessed the clinical effectiveness of the 23-valent […]
Stroke.ahajournals.org: Steven C. Cramer, MD; Dana Stradling, BSN; David M. Brown, MD; Ignacio M. Carrillo-Nunez, MD; Anthony Ciabarra, MD, PhD; Michael Cummings, MD; Richard Dauben, MD; David L. Lombardi, MD; Nirav Patel, MD; Elizabeth N. Traynor, MD; Stephen Waldman, MD, PhD; Ken Miller, MD, PhD; Samuel J. Stratton, MD., January 26, 2012. Background and Purpose—Organized […]
Stroke.ahajournals.org: Cristina Belizna, MD, PhD; Laurent Loufrani, PhD; Alaa Ghali, MD; Agnes Lahary, MD; Etienne Primard, MD; Jean-Pierre Louvel, MD; Daniel Henrion, PhD; Hervé Lévesque, MD, PhD; Norbert Ifrah, MD, PhD., March 22, 2012. Background and Purpose—Large vessels are also affected in sickle cell disease. The aim of this study was to assess several parameters […]
Archinte.ama-assn.org: Shikhar Agarwal, MD, MPH, CPH; Rory Hachamovitch, MD, MS; Venu Menon, MD , March 26, 2012. Background Although several new antithrombotic agents have been developed for stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF), many patients will continue to be treated with warfarin worldwide. We performed a meta-analysis of safety and efficacy outcomes in patients with […]
Medicalxpress.com: March 23, 2012. In 2011, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) convened the Stroke Progress Review Group (SPRG) to conduct a final 10-year review of the state of stroke research. The goal is to set priorities and shape future NINDS programs and policies. While SPRG found much available data for maximizing stroke […]
Stroke.ahajournals.org: Alex Pollock, PhD; Christine Hazelton, BSc(Hons); Clair A. Henderson, MSc; Jayne Angilley, BSc; Balijean Dhillon, FRCPS(Glasg); Peter Langhorne, FRCP; Katrina Livingstone, BSc(Hons); Frank A. Munro, BSc; Heather Orr, BSc; Fiona Rowe, PhD; Uma Shahani, PhD., March 8, 2012. An estimated 20% to 57% of people have visual field defects after stroke, affecting function, quality […]
Stroke.ahajournals.org: Bernd Kallmünzer, MD*; Lorenz Breuer, MD*; Christiane Hering, MD; Dorette Raaz-Schrauder, MD; Rainer Kollmar, MD; Hagen B. Huttner, MD; Stefan Schwab, MD; Martin Köhrmann, MD., Feb. 2, 2012. Background and Purpose—Anticoagulation is a highly effective secondary prevention in patients with cardioembolic stroke and atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF). However, the condition remains underdiagnosed, because paroxysmal AF may […]
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Stroke Common Data Element (CDE) Project Stroke.ahajournals.org: Jeffrey L. Saver, MD; Steven Warach, MD, PhD; Scott Janis, PhD; Joanne Odenkirchen, MPH; Kyra Becker, MD; Oscar Benavente, MD; Joseph Broderick, MD; Alexander W. Dromerick, MD; Pamela Duncan, PhD; Mitchell S.V. Elkind, MD; Karen Johnston, MD; Chelsea S. Kidwell, […]
