News
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Plosone.org: 7/20/12. Delay in calling emergency medical services following stroke limits access to early treatment that can reduce disability. Emergency medical services contact is mostly initiated by stroke witnesses (often relatives), rather than stroke patients. This study explored appraisal and behavioural factors that are potentially important in influencing witness behaviour in response to stroke. Read More
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals.org: 7/19/12. Stroke has fallen from the second to the fourth leading cause of death in the United States without large declines in stroke incidence or case fatality. We explored whether this decline may be attributable to changes in mortality attribution methodology. Read More
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals.org: 7/19/12. Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the second most common cause of stroke and accounts for 8% to 15% of strokes in Western societies with an estimated incidence of 10 to 25 per 100 000 persons.1–3 Despite advances in the field of stroke and neurocritical care,4 the 30-day mortality has not changed significantly over the past 20 […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
Onlinelibrary.wiley.com: 7/13/12. To explore how a stroke or a transient ischemic attack affects quality of life and to identify gender differences. Background. The negative effect of a stroke on the patients’ quality of life has previously been studied, while the effect on patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) is more unknown, especially in relation to gender. […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
Brn.sagepub.com: 4/23/12. Informal caregivers of stroke survivors experience elevated chronic stress and are at risk of developing depressive symptoms. The cumulative effects of chronic stress can increase allostatic load and dysregulate biological processes, thus increasing risk of stress-related disease. Stress-induced alterations in the pattern of cortisol secretion vary with respect to stressor onset, intensity, and […]
Clinical Trials
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Plosone.org: 7/25/12. To determine which early modifiable factors are associated with younger stroke survivors’ ability to return to paid work in a cohort study with 12-months of follow-up conducted in 20 stroke units in the Stroke Services NSW clinical network. Read More
Clinical Trials
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Biomedcentral.com: 7/25/12. Patients who are hospitalized with a first or recurrent stroke often are discharged with new medications or adjustment to the doses of pre-admission medications, which can be confusing and pose safety issues if misunderstood. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of medication coaching via telephone after discharge in patients […]
Clinical Trials
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Circ.ahajournals.org: 7/23/12. Intermittent rhythm monitoring (IRM) to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence is employed to evaluate the success of therapeutic interventions. In a large population of continuously monitored (CM) patients, we investigated the sensitivity of various frequency and duration IRM strategies on the detection of AF recurrence, the dynamics behind AF recurrence detection and describe […]
Clinical Trials
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals.org: 6/7/12. The INTEnsive blood pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT) pilot study showed that early intensive blood pressure-lowering can attenuate hematoma growth in acute intracerebral hemorrhage. The present analysis aimed to determine the treatment effects on hematoma growth by time from intracerebral hemorrhage onset to randomization. Read More
Clinical Trials
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals.org: 5/10/12. Improvements of language production in aphasic patients have been reported following repeated 1-Hz transcranial magnetic stimulation over the nondamaged right hemisphere. Most studies examined aphasic patients in the chronic phase. The effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation application in acute or subacute patients has not been systematically studied. We aimed to evaluate whether continuous […]
