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UK heart disease and stroke death rates now lower than cancer
Conclusion This valuable research informs on the burden of cardiovascular disease and associated mortality across European countries. It demonstrates that CVD is still the most common cause of death across Europe, but rates have been falling over the past 10 years. This fall means that in several European countries, including the UK, cancer rates now overtake CVD death rates in men. Generally, CVD disability and burden of disease seems to be greater in Eastern European countries. The WHO mortality data and population data are quite up-to-date and should be reliable, though as the researchers say, there was a lack of high ...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Cancer Neurology Source Type: news

Study: 'mini strokes should be treated immediately with aspirin'
Conclusion The study supports current recommended practice that people with a TIA or ischaemic stroke caused by a blood clot are treated with aspirin as soon as possible. NHS experts are considering whether to recommend that you take aspirin yourself while waiting for medical help. The reason this isn't recommended at present is that some people will have had a haemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke, and aspirin can make the bleeding worse. For people who've had a full stroke, an urgent brain scan is usually performed to exclude bleeding as a cause and check it's safe to proceed with anti-clotting treatment. The risk of trans...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology Medication Source Type: news

Take aspirin immediately after a 'funny turn' to cut your risk of stroke by up to 80% 
An Oxford University study found that taking an aspirin immediately after a 'mini stroke' - or transient ischaemic attack - reduced the risk of a subsequent major stroke by up to 80 per cent.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

An apple a day really CAN keep the doctor away
Eating a 100g portion (just over half a cup) - the equivalent to an apple or orange - a day, lowers a person's risk of early death from heart attack or stroke by a third, according to University of Oxford scientists.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Fruit may be good for you, but don’t ditch the statins
Conclusion The study adds to evidence that fresh fruit is likely to be good for our cardiovascular health, although we can't be sure from this study that it definitely prevents deaths, heart attacks or strokes. Observational studies cannot prove that one factor causes another, even when they are as big as this study, because other unmeasured factors could be responsible for the results. In this case, a major potential confounder that the researchers failed to take into account was whether the participants were taking any medication – they only excluded people taking blood pressure tablets. The link with statins, made by ...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Heart/lungs Source Type: news

100g portion of fresh fruit 'slashes risk of heart attack or stroke by a third'
Eating a 100g portion (just over half a cup) - the equivalent to an apple or orange - a day, lowers a person's risk of early death from heart attack or stroke by a third, according to University of Oxford scientists.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Long-Term Risk of Stroke, Seizures and Cognitive Impairment After Transient Global Amnesia: A Case-Control, Population-Based Study with Long Term Follow Up (P1.114)
Conclusions: The long-term risk of stroke, seizure and cognitive impairment is not increased after TGA. Migraine appears to be a risk factor for presenting TGA.Disclosure: Dr. Arena has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mandrekar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Singh has nothing to disclose. Dr. Brown has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rabinstein has received royalty payments from Elsevier and Oxford University Press. Dr. Rabinstein has received research support from DJO Global.
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Arena, J., Mandrekar, J., Singh, T., Brown, R., Rabinstein, A. Tags: Neuroepidemiology: Cerebrovascular Disease Source Type: research

Electric therapy 'aids stroke recovery'
Stimulating the brain with electrical current can help improve recovery after a stroke, research from the University of Oxford suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Glyn Humphreys obituary
Key figure in cognitive neuroscience whose research helped many stroke victimsWhen the neuropsychologist Glyn Humphreys, who has died suddenly aged 61, took up his first lectureship, at Birkbeck College, London, a student with a background in physiotherapy joined his class. She asked about the implications of David Marr’s theory of visual perception for the understanding of patients who experience visual disturbances after suffering a stroke. This led to a lively discussion and a subsequent visit to a stroke clinic. It proved to be a turning point in Glyn’s research, highlighting the many ways in which brain damage can...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 9, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Maggie Snowling Tags: Neuroscience Psychology Birkbeck, University of London Disability University of Oxford Source Type: news

Utility of Brain MRI in Infective Endocarditis (S46.004)
CONCLUSIONS: In hospitalized patients with IE, ICH was associated with unfavorable clinical outcomes. However, in patients undergoing valve surgery, microbleeds on MRI were not associated with development of postoperative ICH. Preoperative brain MRI may result in a delay to surgery and did not have an impact on outcome. Thus, the clinical utility of brain MRI in patients with IE remains uncertain.Disclosure: Dr. Chakraborty has nothing to disclose. Dr. Scharf has nothing to disclose. Dr. DeSimone has nothing to disclose. Dr. Abdelghani has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rabinstein has received royalty payments from Elsevier and ...
Source: Neurology - February 7, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Chakraborty, T., Scharf, E., DeSimone, D., Abdelghani, E.-R., Rabinstein, A., Wijdicks, E., Baddour, L., Fugate, J. Tags: Critical Care Source Type: research

Oxford University study finds 17m Britons might need blood pressure pills
Prof Kazem Rahimi of Oxford University, pictured, claimed that mass prescribing of the medication could help slash the rates of stroke and cardiac arrest.
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Being happy 'won't help you live longer' survey finds
ConclusionThis large prospective study aimed to assess whether happiness or related measures of wellbeing are associated with risk of death, after allowing for the influence of the poor health and lifestyles of people who are unhappy.The study found poor health was linked with unhappiness in middle-aged women. However, after allowing for this association and adjusting for the influence of other factors that may be associated, such as smoking and poor socioeconomic status, happiness and related measures of wellbeing do not appear to have any direct effect on death. This suggests that, as has sometimes previously been specu...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Source Type: news

Human trials suggest 'rescued' drug could be safer treatment for bipolar disorder
(University of Oxford) Ebselen, abandoned as a stroke treatment, has a successful first human trial as Oxford scientists aim to repurpose it as a treatment for bipolar disorder.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Brain structure may be root of apathy
(University of Oxford) Oxford scientists find evidence of a biological basis for apathy in health people. Research could shed light on the way some people become pathologically apathetic, for example after a stroke or with Alzheimer's disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 12, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Bodily sense and sensibility: anosognosia, asomatognosia and anorexia
Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou PhD, is a Reader in Psychodynamic Neuroscience at the Psychology and Language Sciences Division, University College London. Funded by a Starting Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for the project ‘Bodily Self’, she runs KatLab, a group of researchers and students that conduct studies on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology. See here for publications and our Lab's Campaign on further funding on ‘Body Image’ Neuroscientific Research: http://www.fotopoulou.com Katerina is also the Director of the London Neurops...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 13, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Stroke, Eating disorders PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS - DAY 2 Source Type: research