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New stroke guidelines aim to improve care amid COVID-19
(University of Virginia Health System) Top stroke experts have issued new guidance to ensure stroke patients receive safe, timely care while preventing the transmission of COVID-19.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Rate over time of stroke caused by brain bleeding
(JAMA Network) This observational study looked at the rate and risk factors of stroke caused by bleeding within the brain (intracerebral hemorrhage) between 1948 and 2016 among 10,000 participants in the Framingham Heart Study. There have been conflicting results in other studies on whether the rate of this often deadly type of stroke is changing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Risk of stroke may more than double for African Americans who smoke
(American Heart Association) Current cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked per day are associated with more than double the risk of stroke among African Americans.Researchers suggest more public information campaigns should be geared toward warning African Americans about the increased risk of stroke from cigarette smoking.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New mechanism for stroke treatment shows successful proof-of-concept
(University of Connecticut) Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the US; new research from UConn Health suggests a promising treatment for patients by successfully inhibited an important receptor implicated in post-stroke damage and recovery.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers report positive results for ReWalk ReStore exosuit in stroke rehabilitation
(Kessler Foundation) The trial determined the safety, reliability, and feasibility of the device in this stroke population. 'We found that the ReStore provided targeted assistance for plantarflexion and dorsiflexion of the paretic ankle, improving the gait pattern,' explained Dr. Nolan, senior research scientist in the Center for Mobility and Rehabilitation Engineering Research at Kessler Foundation. 'This is an important first step toward expanding options for rehabilitative care for the millions of individuals with mobility impairments caused by ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.'
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
First non-human primate study showing promise of gene therapy for stroke repair
(Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration,Jinan University) Stroke is a leading cause of death and severe long-term disability with limited treatment available. A research team led by Prof. Gong Chen at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China recently reported the first non-human primate study demonstrating successful in vivo neural regeneration from brain internal glial cells for stroke repair. This work was published on Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology on November 5th, 2020.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A step toward understanding why COVID-19 boosts stroke risk
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA-led study may help explain how COVID-19 increases the risk for stroke. Scientists made the finding by running fluid spiked with a COVID-19-like protein through a 3D-printed model of the arteries of a patient who had suffered a stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Henry Ford Hospital earns re-certification as comprehensive stroke center by the joint commission
(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan has been re-certified by The Joint Commission as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest distinction of its kind which recognizes hospitals that have the ability to receive and treat the most complex stroke cases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Non-O blood type may increase stroke risk among women who smoke, take oral contraceptives
(American Heart Association) A small study found non-O blood type may increase the risk of early-onset stroke among women who smoke and take oral contraceptives.Women with non-O type blood who smoked and used oral contraceptives were nearly twice as likely as those with O type blood to have a stroke before age 50.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Immediate angiography may reduce stroke treatment time, improve recovery, lower disability
(American Heart Association) Immediate angiography, rather than the standard CT scan, reduced time to stroke treatment. Stroke patients who were assessed with an immediate angiography had less disability at 90 days compared to those who received a CT scan.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 18, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stroke risk higher than expected among COVID-19 patients
(American Heart Association) Analysis of data from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 through November 2020 found that, overall, COVID-19 patients had an increased risk of stroke compared with patients who had influenza or sepsis.COVID-19 patients with ischemic stroke were more likely to be older, male, Black race or have high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes or an irregular heartbeat.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
More stroke patients receiving mechanical clot removal, yet racial disparities persist
(American Heart Association) Mechanical removal of blood clots for stroke (endovascular treatment) has become more prevalent, however, racial differences in receiving the treatment persist.Black patients receive endovascular treatment less often than non-Hispanic white patients.In addition, Black and Asian patients treated with clot-removal therapy were less likely than non-Hispanic white patients to be able to perform the tasks of daily living three months after a stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stroke rate 4 times higher in Black adults than whites
(Kaiser Permanente) Black middle-aged adults had an incidence rate of stroke 4 times higher than that of white middle-aged adults, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published March 29 in Hypertension.The large national prospective study highlights the need to raise awareness among young and middle-aged Black adults about the impact of high blood pressure, called hypertension, on stroke, the research team said.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Comfort care beneficial for hospitalized stroke patients, yet disparities in use persist
(American Heart Association) A new study finds comfort care, including palliative care and hospice care, can improve quality of life in hospitalized stroke patients.Although comfort care for stroke patients is increasingly being used, disparities in use persist that may be related to gender, race, income and other factors.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
How robots and brain-computer interfaces could transform stroke patients' recovery
(KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.) The NCyborg Project, a new stroke rehabilitation pattern based on brain-computer interface technology and brain-inspired intelligent robot technology, is a collaboration between China's Tongji Hospital and BrainCo. The two organizations will draw on these technologies to improve rehabilitation treatment and outcomes for stroke survivors.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
