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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals: Adam M. Bernstein, MD, ScD; An Pan, PhD; Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD; Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH; Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH; Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH – December 29, 2011. Abstract Background and Purpose—Few dietary protein sources have been studied prospectively in relation to stroke. We examined the relation between foods that are major protein sources and risk […]
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Feb 23, 2012. Public Health Grand Rounds Heart disease and stroke are, respectively, the first and fourth leading causes of death in the United States. Cardiovascular disease alone is responsible for 1 of every 3 deaths in the U.S. and costs the nation $444 billion per year in […]
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
Relationship of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale to 30-Day Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Ischemic Stroke American Heart Association: Feb 21, 2012. Gregg C. Fonarow, MD; Jeffrey L. Saver, MD; Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH; Joseph P. Broderick, MD; Dawn O. Kleindorfer, MD; Ralph L. Sacco, MD; Wenqin Pan, PhD; DaiWai M. Olson, PhD; […]
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — New research finds foreign-born Hispanics now living in the United States appear to be less likely to have a stroke compared to non-Hispanic white people. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. The research is […]
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
Reuters – Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:14pm EST. Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study. Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank […]
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
US Health News (HealthDay News) – THURSDAY, Feb. 16, 2012. Average medical costs for a stroke patient with language impairment (aphasia) are more than $1,700 higher in the first year after stroke than for a patient without aphasia, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 3,200 Medicare patients in South Carolina who had […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2012) — The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012. Before stroke prevention efforts changed in 1998, black […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD, ol. 69 No. 2, Archneur.ama-assn.org February 2012. Arch Neurol. 2012;69(2):161-167. doi:10.1001/archneurol.2011.1175. There is no current medical therapy for stroke recovery. Principles of physiological plasticity have been identified during recovery in both animal models and human stroke. Stroke produces a loss of physiological brain maps in adjacent peri-infarct cortex and then a […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
Health News Digest By Staff Editor – Feb 13, 2012 – 4:08:01 PM. Findings Suggest Simple Methods to Detect Consciousness May Bypass Patients Who Can Communicate, But Not in Recognizable Ways (HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2012) — Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
By: HEIDI SPLETE, Cardiology News Digital Network – 02/13/12. The increased stroke risk was highest within 12-14 hours of exposure to PM2.5 and was most strongly associated with traffic-related pollution, the researchers noted. The mean age of the patients was 73 years; 55% were white, and 68% were women. The most common determined causes of the strokes […]
