STROKEAHA.: March 27, 2014 Background and Purpose—Cognitive impairment is linked to vascular risk factors and brain vascular pathologies. Several studies have tested whether subjects with cognitive impairment have higher risk for stroke. The aim of this study was to systematically review available evidence on the association between cognitive impairment and risk of stroke to obtain precise […]
Biomedcentral: March 26, 2014 Background Stroke is the leading cause of disability among adults in the United States. The association of patients’ pre-event socioeconomic status (SES) with post-stroke disability is not well understood. We examined the association of three indicators of SES—educational attainment, working status, and perceived adequacy of household income—with disability 3-months following an acute […]
Neurology: February 28, 2014 Objective: It is unknown whether racial differences in exposure to acute precipitants of stroke, specifically infection, contribute to racial disparities in stroke mortality. Methods: Among participants in the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study with linked Medicare data (1991–2007), we conducted a case-crossover study employing within-person comparisons to study racial/ethnic differences in the risks […]
Neurology: 2/7/14 Objective: We aimed to compare quality of life (QOL) in women and men after ischemic stroke or TIA, and to determine the incremental impact of demographic, socioeconomic, clinical, and stroke-specific effects on longitudinal QOL. Methods: We assessed QOL in patients with ischemic stroke or TIA at 3 and 12 months postdischarge in the Adherence eValuation […]
STROKEAHA: March 4, 2014 Background and Purpose—We sought to assess outcomes after endovascular treatment/therapy of acute ischemic stroke, overall and by subgroups, and looked for predictors of outcome. Methods—We used data from a mandatory, population-based registry that includes external monitoring of completeness, which assesses reperfusion therapies for consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke since 2011. We […]
The Lancet Neurology: April 2014 International Women’s Day was fast approaching as this issue of The Lancet Neurology went to press, so it seemed appropriate to celebrate the publication of the first set of guidelines to focus exclusively on the prevention of stroke in women. The guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association identify stroke risk […]
The Lancet Neurology: April 2014 International Women’s Day was fast approaching as this issue of The Lancet Neurology went to press, so it seemed appropriate to celebrate the publication of the first set of guidelines to focus exclusively on the prevention of stroke in women. The guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association identify stroke risk […]
STROKEAHA: March 25, 2014 Background and Purpose—To address the increasing need to counsel patients about treatment indications for unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA), we endeavored to develop a consensus on assessment of UIAs among a group of specialists from diverse fields involved in research and treatment of UIAs. Methods—After composition of the research group, a Delphi consensus […]
Neurology: March 25, 2014 Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States. Stroke incidence and prevalence is not uniform. It occurs more frequently in some geographical areas of the United States and the rates are higher in minority groups.1,2 Some proposed causes for these disparities include […]
NIH: March 20, 2014 NIH-funded findings point to new potential strategies for disease prevention, treatment Scientists studying the genomes of nearly 5,000 people have pinpointed a genetic variant tied to an increased risk for stroke, and have also uncovered new details about an important metabolic pathway that plays a major role in several common diseases. […]
