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Friday, March 16th, 2012
An Analysis of the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive (VISTA) Database Stroke.ahajournals: Gerhard Vogt, PhD; Rico Laage, PhD; Ashfaq Shuaib, MD; Armin Schneider, MD on behalf of the VISTA Collaboration – March 8, 2012. Abstract Background and Purpose—Age and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale early after stroke onset have been identified as important determinants of […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2012) — Scientists investigating a ‘biochemical switch’ linked to strokes and heart disease claim to have made an advance in understanding how it is ‘turned on’. The work was led by a team at the University of Leicester, working in collaboration with Cardiff University, to investigate the ‘biochemical switch’ identified as the P2X1 […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
News-Medical: March 6, 2012 at 3:17 AM. U-M researchers found that most patients underwent both MRIs and CTs; neuroimaging biggest source of escalating stroke care costs Neuroimaging for stroke patients may be unnecessarily costly and redundant, contributing to rising costs nationwide for stroke care, according to University of Michigan research. The research, published in the Annals of Neurology, found that […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Duration of Diabetes and Risk of Ischemic Stroke The Northern Manhattan Study Stroke.ahajournals: Chirantan Banerjee, MBBS, MPH; Yeseon P. Moon, MS; Myunghee C. Paik, PhD; Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD; Consuelo Mora-McLaughlin, BS; Julio R. Vieira, MD, MS; Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS; Mitchell S.V. Elkind, MD, MS – March 1, 2012. Abstract Background and Purpose—Diabetes increases stroke risk, but whether diabetes status immediately […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Stroke.ahajournals: Beverly G. Windham, MD, MHS; Michael E. Griswold, PhD; Dean Shibata, MD;Alan Penman, MD, PhD; Diane J. Catellier, PhD; Thomas H. Mosley Jr, PhD – March 1, 2012. Abstract Background and Purpose—Unrecognized or unreported stroke-like symptoms, called covert symptoms, occur in persons free of clinical stroke. Whether covert symptoms are associated with subclinical brain […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Is Foreign Birth Protective? Stroke.ahajournals: J. Robin Moon, DPH; Benjamin D. Capistrant, MS; Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD; Mauricio Avendaño, PhD; S.V. Subramanian, PhD; Lisa M. Bates, ScD; M. Maria Glymour, ScD – February 21, 2012. Abstract Background and Purpose—Although Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, relatively little is known about stroke risk in US […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Health News Review: by Gary Schwitzer – February 24, 2012. A spin around the Web today will give you many stories about citrus fruits and women’s stroke risk. Citrus Fruits May Lower Women’s Stroke Risk – WebMD But in the body of the story there’s not a word about the limitations of such an observational study. Only […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
How information is presented to a patient makes a difference in health decisions News-Medical: February 23, 2012. A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Based on the study, the researchers concluded […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new report released today by HealthGrades found that from 2008 to 2010, emergency admissions for heart attack decreased slightly (1.7 percent) for Medicare patients, but admissions for stroke increased by 2.2 percent. Heart attack and stroke were among the conditions with the highest mortality rates, with nearly one in 10 […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke.ahajournals: Ralph L. Sacco, MS, MD, FAAN, FAHA, Chair; Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Co-Chair; Drew E. Blakeman, MS; Edward C. Jauch, MD, MS, FAHA; Stephanie Mohl – February 1, 2012. Stroke remains a leading cause of disability and death for people of all races and ethnicities. Nearly 800 000 Americans […]
