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Stroke Costs to Double by 2030, Groups Say (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- The rising prevalence of stroke in an aging population is likely to more than double the cost of stroke care over the next two decades, the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association warned.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - May 22, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Stroke Rounds: BP Control May Cut Second Stroke Risk in Half
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke patients do a poor job of consistently controlling their blood pressure, but those who do may cut their risk of having another stroke in half, a retrospective analysis found.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Stroke: Time Is Still Brain (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke treatment within 60 minutes, telestroke networks, and expanding eligibility for clot-buster therapy are among the new topics outlined in the new stroke guidelines.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 31, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Infocus: Intra-Arterial Stroke Tx Takes Hit, but Survives
HONOLULU (MedPage Today) -- The buzz here at the International Stroke Conference is the poor showing of endovascular therapies for treating acute ischemic stroke. But there are "glimmers" that certain patients might benefit, said Joseph P. Broderick, MD, in this exclusive InFocus interview.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Antiplatelet Duo Helps After Minor Stroke (CME/CE)
HONOLULU (MedPage Today) -- In the months immediately after a minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), adding clopidogrel to aspirin therapy cuts the risk of another stroke, a Chinese trial showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 10, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Vorapaxar Fails Secondary Stroke Prevention Test (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- The investigational antiplatelet vorapaxar given with standard antiplatelet therapy to ischemic stroke patients increased brain bleeds and recurrent ischemic stroke without any drop in other cardiovascular events, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 11, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
AAN: Age, Race Biases Seen in Stroke Transfers (CME/CE)
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Blacks and the elderly were dramatically underrepresented among ischemic stroke patients in rural Alabama sent to a tertiary stroke center after initial thrombolysis, a researcher said here.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 21, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Certified Stroke Centers Use More Clot Busters (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Acute ischemic stroke patients are more likely to receive intravenous tPA if they are treated at a primary stroke center certified by the Joint Commission, a retrospective study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Drug Combo May Cut Stroke Risk After TIA (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke risk declined by a third in people who took a combination of antiplatelet drugs after having a transient ischemic attack or minor stroke, a large randomized trial showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - June 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
EMS Triage to Stroke Centers Doubles tPA Use (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- A city-wide program to get stroke patients routed to primary stroke centers by paramedics had a "significant, immediate, sustainable impact" on raising use of clot-busting drugs, a study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - July 2, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Clot-Busting Drugs Used More Often in Stroke (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke patients eligible for thrombolytic therapy have significantly better odds of receiving the therapy than they did a few years ago, according to a review of more than a million stroke cases.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
AHA, ASA Urge Systems Approach to Stroke Care (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Systems of care for stroke victims have the potential to reduce death and disability, according to a new policy statement from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 30, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
B Vitamins Trim Stroke Risk for Some (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Vitamin B supplementation may modestly help reduce stroke risk, though largely for patients who don't fit the typical U.S. stroke prevention profile, a meta-analysis showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 18, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Start Warfarin, Have a Stroke? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Starting warfarin for preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation appeared to be associated with a transiently increased risk of ischemic stroke before the preventive effects kicked in, a large case-control study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - December 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Hot Topics 2014, Stroke: Goldstein, Mohr, Lyden
(MedPage Today) -- What do you anticipate will be the most important clinical development in stroke in 2014? That's the question we asked three high-profile specialists in the field, and in this video they give their insightful, but very different, answers -- ranging from new ways of treating stroke medically to wider application of genetic testing.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
