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Stroke Mortality Among Black and White Adults Aged ≥35 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, 2015-2021
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023 Apr 21;72(16):431-436. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7216a4.ABSTRACTStroke is the fifth leading cause of death and a leading cause of long-term disability in the United States (1). Although stroke death rates have declined since the 1950s, age-adjusted rates remained higher among non-Hispanic Black or African American (Black) adults than among non-Hispanic White (White) adults (1,2). Despite intervention efforts to reduce racial disparities in stroke prevention and treatment through reducing stroke risk factors, increasing awareness of stroke symptoms, and improving access to treatment and care for s...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 21, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Quanhe Yang Xin Tong Linda Schieb F átima Coronado Robert Merritt Source Type: research
The Racial Gap in U.S. Stroke Deaths Got Worse During the Pandemic
NEW YORK — The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, government researchers said Thursday.
Stroke death rates increased for both Black and white adults in 2020 and 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared with the five years before the pandemic.
“Any health inequity that existed before seems to have been made larger during the pandemic,” said Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, a stroke researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix who was not involved in the new...
Source: TIME: Health - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Grace Under Pressure: Resiliency of Quality Monitoring of Stroke Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico City
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability among adults worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020. The first case in Mexico was confirmed in February 2020, subsequently becoming one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. In 2020, The National Institute of Neurology of Mexico started a Quality assurance program for stroke care, consisting of registering, monitoring and feedback of stroke quality measures through the RES-Q platform. We aim to describe changes in the demand for stroke healthcare assistance at the National Institute of Neu...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 6, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Effects of statins on the risks of ischemic stroke and heart disease in human immunodeficiency virus infection, influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus: respiratory virus infection with steroid use
CONCLUSION: Statin use was associated with lower aHRs for ischemic stroke and heart disease in those with HIS disorders with comorbidities.PMID:35590450 | DOI:10.1080/00325481.2022.2080359
Source: Postgraduate Medicine - May 20, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Jun-Jun Yeh Meichu Lai Cheng-Li Lin Kuan-Hua Lu Chia-Hung Kao Source Type: research
COVID-19 Infection and Recurrent Stroke in Young Patients With Protein S Deficiency: A Case Report
Conclusions:
SARS-CoV-2 infection potentializes the prothrombotic effect and vascular inflammation by accentuating protein S deficit. The place of steroids seems justifiable in the presence of symptoms of vasculitis in brain imaging.
Source: The Neurologist - November 1, 2021 Category: Neurology Tags: Case Report/Case Series Source Type: research
Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2023 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
CONCLUSIONS: The Statistical Update represents a critical resource for the lay public, policymakers, media professionals, clinicians, health care administrators, researchers, health advocates, and others seeking the best available data on these factors and conditions.PMID:36695182 | DOI:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001123
Source: Atherosclerosis - January 25, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Connie W Tsao Aaron W Aday Zaid I Almarzooq Cheryl A M Anderson Pankaj Arora Christy L Avery Carissa M Baker-Smith Andrea Z Beaton Amelia K Boehme Alfred E Buxton Yvonne Commodore-Mensah Mitchell S V Elkind Kelly R Evenson Chete Eze-Nliam Setri Fugar Giul Source Type: research
Integrated head and neck imaging of symptomatic patients with stroke using simultaneous non-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography and intraplaque hemorrhage imaging as compared with digital subtraction angiography
CONCLUSIONS: CMR SNAP is consistent with DSA in measuring vessel diameters and identifying atherosclerosis stenosis in each intracranial and carotid vessel segment. SNAP is also a potential alternative to HR-VWI in identifying stenosis and IPH.PMID:35307027 | DOI:10.1186/s12968-022-00849-1
Source: Atherosclerosis - March 21, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yuxi Jia Xiaoming Liu Lan Zhang Xiangchuang Kong Shuo Chen Lei Zhang Jiazheng Wang Shenglei Shu Jia Liu Xiaona Fu Dingxi Liu Jing Wang Heshui Shi Source Type: research
What to Know About High Cholesterol in Kids
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., but it’s not something we usually associate with kids. In many cases, however, the seeds of heart attacks and strokes may be sown in childhood.
That’s because high or abnormal cholesterol levels, which are a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, are not uncommon in kids. “People may feel that cholesterol is mostly an adult issue, which is not correct,” says Dr. Nivedita Patni, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Health in Dallas and an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
About 1 in 5 child...
Source: TIME: Health - July 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sandeep Ravindran Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Adverse cardiovascular magnetic resonance phenotypes are associated with greater likelihood of incident coronavirus disease 2019: findings from the UK Biobank
CONCLUSIONS: Observational reports of cardiovascular involvement after COVID-19 may, at least partly, reflect pre-existing cardiac status rather than COVID-19 induced alterations.PMID:33683678 | DOI:10.1007/s40520-021-01808-z
Source: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research - March 8, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Zahra Raisi-Estabragh Celeste McCracken Jackie Cooper Kenneth Fung Jos é M Paiva Mohammed Y Khanji Elisa Rauseo Luca Biasiolli Betty Raman Stefan K Piechnik Stefan Neubauer Patricia B Munroe Nicholas C Harvey Steffen E Petersen Source Type: research
