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Medical News Today: Stroke hospitalizations rising for young adults and African-Americans
While overall, fewer Americans are being hospitalized for ischemic stroke, among young adults and African-Americans, stroke hospitalizations are rising.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Gender gap in stroke treatment likely due to delay by women seeking care
Women with clot-caused strokes are less likely than men to arrive at the hospital in time to receive the best treatment, according to a European study reported in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. In the study, 11 percent of women with acute ischemic strokes were treated with the clot-dissolving medication alteplase, compared with 14 percent of men. Study participants included 5,515 patients at 12 hospitals in the Netherlands...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Rates of 'clot-buster' treatment for stroke increased by telestroke service
A telestroke service increases the rate of effective tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke treated at community hospitals, according to a report in the October issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Use of Buyang Huanwu Decoction to treat stroke
The traditional Chinese medicine Buyang Huanwu Decoction has been shown to improve the neurological function of patients with stroke. Baiyan Liu from Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China showed that Buyang Huanwu Decoction significantly increased the number of cells positive for 5-bromodeoxyuridine, a cell proliferation-related marker, microtubule-associated protein-2, a marker of neuronal differentiation, and growth-associated protein 43, a marker of synaptic plasticity in the ischemic rat cerebral regions...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
RRE validated in multinational stroke cohort
The Recurrence Risk Estimator for ischaemic stroke has been validated in a prospective, multinational study.
Source: MedWire News - March 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Clinical scores unreliable in minor stroke and TIA
Research shows that imaging findings, rather than clinical scores, are the best means of predicting recurrent events in patients with minor stroke or transient ischaemic attack.
Source: MedWire News - March 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Physicians failing to talk to stroke patients about end-of-life treatment preferences
US research suggests that physician–patient discussion about limitations on life-sustaining interventions following ischaemic stroke is low, poorly documented and often left too late.
Source: MedWire News - April 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
ENCHANTED results challenge reduced alteplase dose in Asian stroke patients
A reduced dose of alteplase has failed to prove itself noninferior to the standard dose in a predominantly Asian population of patients with ischaemic stroke.
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Ticagrelor no better than aspirin for stroke patients
The direct platelet inhibitor ticagrelor has proved no more effective than aspirin for preventing recurrent events in patients who start treatment within 24 hours of noncardioembolic, nonsevere stroke or high-risk transient ischaemic attack.
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Early aspirin benefits after minor stroke ‘underestimated’
A meta-analysis of individual patient data has thrown light on the benefits of aspirin for secondary prevention in patients with ischaemic stroke.
Source: MedWire News - May 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Alteplase confers long-term survival benefit after stroke
Alteplase treatment in patients with acute ischaemic stroke is associated with a survival benefit among those who survive the acute phase, shows further analysis of IST-3.
Source: MedWire News - July 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Common heartburn drugs may raise stroke risk
Drugs commonly used to treat heartburn - proton pump inhibitors - may increase the risk of ischemic stroke by more than a fifth, a new study finds.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Stroke: Hispanic patients have delayed treatment times, study finds
Researchers have found that door-to-needle treatment times are longer for Hispanic ischemic stroke patients than non-Hispanic white patients.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Ischemic stroke: Causes, symptoms, and risk factors
An ischemic stroke is caused by a blood clot or plaque buildup. Strokes have several signs that can alert someone to the need for emergency care.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Squirrels and stroke treatment: What's the connection?
The process by which the brains of ground squirrels are protected against low oxygen during hibernation could lead to a new treatment for ischemic stroke.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
