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Impact of AF on stroke risk eliminated with multiple risk factors
(European Society of Cardiology) Patients with five or more risk factors have the same stroke risk as patients with atrial fibrillation, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr. Christine Benn Christiansen from Denmark. The study included data on more than 4 million patients from Danish registries over a 10 year period.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

MRI may predict heart attack and stroke risk in people with diabetes
(Radiological Society of North America) 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.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Study: Racial, ethnic differences in outcomes following stroke known as subarachnoid hemorrhage
(St. Michael's Hospital) Race or ethnicity can be a significant clue in the United States as to who will survive a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage and who will be discharged to institutional care, a new study has found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombogenic effects of atorvastatin in acute ischemic stroke
(Neural Regeneration Research) A recent study by Lianqiu Min and colleagues from Liaoning Medical University observed the effects of atorvastatin treatment in 89 patients from northeastern China with acute ischemic stroke caused by intracranial large-artery atherosclerosis by measuring changes in the levels of markers of inflammation, thrombogenesis, and hyperlipidemia.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Study: Different hormone therapy formulations may pose different risks for heart attack and stroke
(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) 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 FDA-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: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Telestroke service increases rates of 'clot-buster' treatment for stroke, reports Neurosurgery
(Wolters Kluwer Health) A telestroke service increases the rate of effective tissue plasminogen activator 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: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Tests in mice identify compound that may keep survivors of brain aneurysms from succumbing to stroke
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins researchers, working with mice, say they have identified a chemical compound that reduces the risk of dangerous, potentially stroke-causing blood vessel spasms that often occur after the rupture of a bulging vessel in the brain.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

New data-driven machine learning method effectively flags risk for post-stroke dangers
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) 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 noninvasive tests to predict a secondary event.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Flu shot halves risk of heart attack or stroke in people with history of heart attack, study finds
(University Health Network) The flu vaccine may not only ward off serious complications from influenza, it may also reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by more than 50 percent among those who have had a heart attack, according to new research led by Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Ultrasound device combined with clot-buster safe for stroke, say UTHealth researchers
(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) A study led by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston showed that a hands-free ultrasound device combined with a clot-busting drug was safe for ischemic stroke patients.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Experimental drug reduces brain damage, eliminates brain hemorrhaging in rodents afflicted by stroke
(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Developed by a team led by USC physician-scientist Berislav V. Zlokovic, the experimental drug 3K3A-APC shows promise as a stand-alone therapy for stroke or in combination with the FDA-approved clot-busting drug therapy tPA (tissue plasminogen activator).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke
(Neural Regeneration Research) The incidence of shoulder pain post stroke was high. Thus, it is clinically significant to study the onset characteristics and pain management.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 30, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

MiR-137, a new target for post-stroke depression?
(Neural Regeneration Research) Is miR-137 a new target for post-stroke depression?
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 5, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Effect of reducing blood pressure with medications immediately following ischemic stroke
(The JAMA Network Journals) Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D., of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, and colleagues examined whether moderate lowering of blood pressure within the first 48 hours after the onset of an acute ischemic stroke would reduce death and major disability at 14 days or hospital discharge.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

UTHealth named one of nation's NIH stroke network centers
(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has been named one of 25 regional stroke centers by the National Institutes of Health and the only one in Texas.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news