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Commentary: Addressing Racial Disparities in Stroke: The Wide Spectrum Investigation of Stroke Outcome Disparities on Multiple Levels (WISSDOM).
Authors: Adams RJ, Ellis C, Magwood G, Kindy MS, Bonilha L, Lackland DT, WISSDOM Investigators Abstract Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke recovery are well-established in the United States but the underlying causes are not well-understood. The typical assumption that racial-ethnic disparities in stroke recovery are explained by health care access inequities may be simplistic as access to stroke-related rehabilitation, for example, does not adequately explain the observed disparities. To approach the problem in a more comprehensive fashion, the Wide Spectrum Investigation of Stroke Outcome Disparities on Multiple ...
Source: Ethnicity and Disease - February 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ethn Dis Source Type: research

Racial Differences in Mechanical Thrombectomy Utilization for Ischemic Stroke in the United States.
Conclusion: We found a significant disparity in MT utilization for AA compared with NHW and Hispanics. More work is needed to understand the drivers of this racial disparity in stroke treatment. PMID: 31969788 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Ethnicity and Disease - January 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ethn Dis Source Type: research

Effectiveness of a Cultural Stroke Prevention Program in the United States —South Asian Health Awareness About Stroke (SAHAS)
AbstractThere are few stroke education programs focused on the South Asian population in the United States. The South Asian Health Awareness about Stroke (SAHAS) program was developed to provide culturally appropriate stroke education to South Asians from 2014 to 2017. Participants recruited for the SAHAS program were educated through a uniquely developed, culturally-specific, educational presentation. Each participant was asked to complete identical educational questionnaires both before (pre-) and after (post-) the intervention, which were then scored and evaluated. Overall, the 357 participants who completed the SAHAS p...
Source: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

CO142 Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes in the Stroke Belt
This study sought to compare specific key outcomes related to ischemic stroke that occurred before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed mortality rates, morbidity rates, and the administration of thrombolytics in patients with ischemic stroke admitted to emergency departments (ED) in the Stroke Belt, a region of the United States with historically worse stroke outcomes.
Source: Value in Health - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: E. Stitzlein, F. Pathan, I. Weimer, K. Lodaya, F. D'Souza, A. Shenoy Source Type: research

Marijuana use might lead to higher risk of stroke, World Stroke Congress to be told
(Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) A five-year study of hospital statistics from the United States shows that the incidence of stroke has risen steadily among marijuana users even though the overall rate of stroke remained constant over the same period.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

At the Intersection of Race, Socioeconomics, and Chronic Illness: A Case and Frame Analysis of Two Survivor-Caregiver Dyads in the Aftermath of Stroke
This article uses a "case and frame" approach, through the lens of ecological systems theory, to illustrate how social determinants of health express themselves in two stroke survivor-caregiver dyads living in a large Midwestern city. We draw out implications for practice and policy in social work and related disciplines that focus on recognizing the impact of social determinants of health, developing culturally-specific interventions that mitigate unique stressors but that also leverage unique strengths, and building capacity for cultural competence and cross-cultural health communication within organizations.PMID:3448649...
Source: Social Work in Public Health - September 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Michael J McCarthy Anjanette Wells Jeffrey Schellinger Angela Bird Source Type: research

Heart disease, stroke less widespread among foreign-born vs. US-born adults
(American Heart Association) Foreign-born adults living in the United States had a lower prevalence of coronary heart disease and stroke than US-born adults in nationally representative data spanning 2006-2014, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Hope on the horizon for treating stroke
(University of California - Riverside) A stroke treatment developed by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside, has moved toward clinical trials. The treatment focuses on neuregulins, a family of naturally occurring proteins that has shown promise for treating stroke, a leading cause of death in the United States and the major cause of long-term disability.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Low Incidence of Death and Renal Failure in United States Military Service Members Hospitalized with Exertional Heat Stroke: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
CONCLUSION: EHS is aggressively identified and treated in U.S. Military Treatment Facilities. Mortality and morbidity were strikingly low. PMID: 32074343 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Military Medicine - February 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research

Research progress of heat stroke during 1989 –2019: a bibliometric analysis
ConclusionsCorresponding to this important field, while the contributions of the publications from the United States were significant, the mismatch between the quantity and quality of publications from China must be examined. Moreover, it is hypothesized that clinical and epidemiological studies may become hotspots in the near future.
Source: Military Medical Research - January 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Hmong Stroke Knowledge Survey
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2022;33(4):2052-2059. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2022.0153.ABSTRACTThe Hmong are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia who migrated in large numbers to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War and are now clustered in several parts of the country, including our city. Based on a retrospective review of medical records and on our anecdotal experience, we suspected that there was a gap in stroke knowledge in our Hmong patients. This stroke knowledge survey was intended to uncover any knowledge gaps within the Hmong community before engaging in community awareness activities. Not only did the surv...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - November 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Haitham M Hussein Carol Droegemueller Pakou Xiong Zong Xiong Sidney Van Dyke Jodi Mueller-Hussein Source Type: research