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Ongoing Research Into Stem Cell Treatment Of Strokes Shows Promise And Caution
While stem-cell therapy offers great promise for the treatment of stroke, much research remains to be done to show its long-term effectiveness and to understand the potential for dangerous side effects. These are the conclusions drawn by Henry Ford Hospital neurologists Jing Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., and Michael Chopp, Ph.D., scientific director of the Henry Ford Hospital Neuroscience Institute, in a review of their own and other current research into the next-generation treatment of one of the leading causes of death and disability around the world...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Non-Adherence To Anti-Hypertensive Medication Greatly Increases Risk Of Stroke
People with high blood pressure, who don't take their anti-hypertensive drug treatments when they should, have a greatly increased risk of suffering a stroke and dying from it compared to those who take their medication correctly...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news
Susceptibility genes for cerebral infarction or hemorrhage in the Han in Hunan, China
Atherosclerosis is widely recognized as an independent risk factor for stroke, and its occurrence is closely related to lipid metabolism. Numerous studies using transgenic and knockout animals have shown that scavenger receptor class B type I has a protective effect against atherosclerosis. Previous studies of scavenger receptor class B type I gene polymorphisms have focused on the exon 1 G4A polymorphism and the exon 8 C1050T polymorphism, and these polymorphic loci impact blood lipid levels and are involved in the dyslipidemia in diabetes patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Stem cell survival after transplantation impacted by melatonin pre-treatment
When melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, was used as a pre-treatment for mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) prior to their transplantation into the brains of laboratory animals to repair damage from stroke, researchers in China found that the stem cells survived longer after transplantation. Previous studies had shown that 80 percent of transplanted MSCs died within 72 hours of transplantation. By contrast, the melatonin pre-treatment "greatly increased" cell survival, said the researchers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Finding may lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative disease and stroke
In degenerative brain diseases and after stroke, nerve cells die while their support cells activate the brain's immune system to cause further damage. Now Jonathan Gilthorpe, Adrian Pini and Andrew Lumsden at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London, have found that a single protein, histone H1, causes these distinct outcomes...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Stem cell study uncovers brain-protective powers of astrocytes
One of regenerative medicine's greatest goals is to develop new treatments for stroke. So far, stem cell research for the disease has focused on developing therapeutic neurons - the primary movers of electrical impulses in the brain - to repair tissue damaged when oxygen to the brain is limited by a blood clot or break in a vessel. New UC Davis research, however, shows that other cells may be better suited for the task...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Platelet Golgi apparatus and their significance after acute cerebral infarction
Expression of soluble CD40L has been shown to increase significantly in conditions such as stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, high cholesterol, or other cardiovascular events. 95% of the circulating CD40L exists in activated platelets. However, the specific pathway of the transition of CD40L is not elucidated, and whether Golgi apparatus is involved in the expression of platelet CD40L still needs to be proven. Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
MRI may predict heart attack and stroke risk in people with diabetes
Whole-body MRI may serve as a valuable noninvasive tool for assessing the risk of heart attack and stroke in diabetic patients, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by an increased concentration of glucose in the blood. There are 347 million diabetic patients worldwide, and the World Health Organization projects that diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death by 2030...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Different risks for heart attack and stroke posed by different hormone therapy formulations
Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug Administration-approved bioidentical forms of estrogen or getting their hormones via a transdermal patch. A new observational study shows bioidentical hormones in transdermal patches may be associated with a lower risk of heart attack and FDA-approved products -- not compounded hormones -- may be associated with a slightly lower risk of stroke compared to synthetic hormones in pill form...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Menopause Source Type: news
Ssocio-economic status impacts mortality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhage in US
Americans in the highest socio-economic groups have a 13 per cent greater chance of surviving a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage than those in the lowest socio-economic groups, a new study has found. However, social and economic status have no bearing on mortality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhages, or SAH, in Canada, according to the study led by Dr. Loch Macdonald, a neurosurgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Risk for post-stroke dangers flagged by new data-driven machine learning method
A team of experts in neurocritical care, engineering, and informatics, with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have devised a new way to detect which stroke patients may be at risk of a serious adverse event following a ruptured brain aneurysm. This new, data-driven machine learning model, involves an algorithm for computers to combine results from various uninvasive tests to predict a secondary event. Preliminary results were released at the Neurocritical Care Society Annual Meeting in Philadelphia...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
IBD sufferers at higher risk of stroke and heart attack
New research from the Mayo Clinic shows an increased risk of stroke or heart attack for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this disease, an abnormal response from the body's immune system mistakes food for a foreign substance, which triggers an immune response whereby the body attacks the cells lining the intestines, causing inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Crohn's / IBD Source Type: news
Carotid artery stenting appears associated with increased stroke in elderly
Carotid artery stenting (CAS) was associated with an increased risk of stroke in elderly patients but the mortality risk appeared to be the same as for nonelderly patients, according to a review of the medical literature published Online First by JAMA Surgery, a JAMA Network publication. There is debate about the most appropriate treatment for carotid artery atherosclerosis and about the safety of CAS (using a stent to expand the carotid artery) and CEA (carotid endarterectomy, a procedure to remove plaque from the artery) in elderly patients, according to the study background...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
COREVALVE reduces rate of death and stroke in sickest patients with aortic stenosis
In a clinical trial, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve met the key performance objective of reducing death and stroke in patients with severe aortic stenosis at "extreme risk" for surgery. Results of the COREVALVE EXTREME RISK trial were presented at the 25th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium. Sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), TCT is the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Poor limb motor function recovery following stroke
Negative motor evoked potentials after cerebral infarction, indicative of poor recovery of limb motor function, tend to be accompanied by changes in fractional anisotropy values and the cerebral peduncle area on the affected side, but the characteristics of these changes have not been reported. As reported previously, the lower limit value of fractional anisotropy of the cerebral peduncle in healthy volunteers is 0.36, and the lower limit of the asymmetry of the cerebral peduncle area is 0.83.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
