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Rapid increase in use of novel oral anticoagulants in very elderly patients under scrutiny
The use of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) has increased rapidly in Ontario, Canada, especially in people aged 85 years and over, in the 2 years since the drugs were approved for use in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), according to new research published in CMAJ Open. This rapid increase signals the need to evaluate outcomes from the use of these drugs in an elderly, high-risk population much older than the population involved in the studies. More than 350 000 Canadians, especially older people, have AF, and anticoagulants are used for the prevention of stroke in these patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Blood / Hematology Source Type: news
Low-fiber diet tied to higher cardiometabolic risk
A new US study that analyzed data from a large national survey has found a significant link between diets low in fiber and increased cardiometabolic risk, a cluster of risk factors that increases a person's chances of having diabetes, heart disease or stroke. The researchers report their findings online in the latest issue of The American Journal of Medicine. There is already a wealth of evidence that diets high in fiber can help lower blood pressure, cholesterol and cardiovascular inflammation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Assistive technology offers a brighter future for locked-in syndrome
A team of researchers from Montreal has found that stroke patients living with Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) who cannot move, swallow or even breathe on their own, can regain a remarkable level of independence with technological help. The team's findings, presented at the Canadian Stroke Congress, stem from a 20-year study that followed the rehabilitation of 25 LIS patients, people who are aware and awake but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Protection against brain abnormalities provided by high serum omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content
According to a new study, high long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content in blood may lower the risk of small brain infarcts and other brain abnormalities in the elderly. The study was published in Journal of the American Heart Association. In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke. Scans were performed again five years later on 2,313 of the participants...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news
Cardiac rehab program recommended for stroke patients
Stroke patients who participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program for six months make rapid gains in how far and fast they can walk, the use of weakened limbs and their ability to sit and stand, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress. On average, participants saw a 21-per-cent improvement in the strength and range of motion of weakened limbs; a 19-per-cent improvement in walking speed; and a 16-per-cent improvement in the distance they could walk...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Despite recent FAST awareness campaign, only a minority of stroke victims seen by doctors within recommended timeframe
In a study, published online in the journal Age and Ageing, of over 270 patients newly diagnosed with minor strokes or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), only a minority sought medical help within the timeframe recommended by the Royal College of Physicians. This is despite the high profile FAST campaign, which was taking place at the time that the study was conducted. Rapid assessment and treatment of patients with TIA or minor stroke reduces the risk of early recurrent stroke...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Stroke 'causes 60% loss of quality years'
For every 5 quality years of life, 3 are taken away for people who have had a stroke, long-term research has found - a loss of 60%. The study, published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, involved 1,188 patients - 748 who had a stroke and 440 who had a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Researchers followed these patients for 5 years. The researchers used a measure called utility, which put a numerical value on the desirability of various health outcomes for patients responding to a questionnaire...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Serious complications risk & high recurrence rates for pediatric atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF), characterized by a rapid and irregular heartbeat, is the most common chronic arrhythmia in adults, but is rare in children. In one of the first studies of pediatric "lone AF" (AF without associated heart disease), researchers found a nearly 40% recurrence rate and that AF in the young is accompanied by substantial symptoms. Three patients had significant complications: one with a stroke and two with substantially impaired heart function. The researchers' findings are published in the October issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
New technique enables accurate, hands-free measure of heart and respiration rates
A simple video camera paired with complex algorithms appears to provide an accurate means to remotely monitor heart and respiration rates day or night, researchers report. The inexpensive method for monitoring the vital signs without touching a patient could have major implications for telemedicine, including enabling rapid detection of a heart attack or stroke occurring at home and helping avoid sudden infant death syndrome, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Could leptin explain the link between abdominal obesity and cardiovascular disease
High levels of adipose tissue hormone leptin in the blood reduces blood vessels' ability to dilate, and also affects blood clotting, all of which increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. These are some of the results that Manuel Gonzalez shows in his doctoral thesis that he defended at Umea University. Numerous population studies have shown that overweight people, especially those with abdominal obesity, have a higher risk of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
New treatment for stroke recovery shows early success
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have taken a step toward developing a new treatment to aid the recovery of limb function after strokes. In a study published online in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, researchers report the full recovery of forelimb strength in animals receiving vagus nerve stimulation. "Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide," said Dr. Navid Khodaparast, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and lead author of the study. "Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Depression linked to higher Parkinson's risk
People suffering from depression may have a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease. This is according to a study published in the journal Neurology. In the past, depression has been linked to numerous other disorders. Earlier this year, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting that depression doubles the risk of stroke in middle-aged women. But researchers from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan say their research suggests that depression is an independent risk factor for Parkinson's disease - a progressive disorder of the nervous system...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Parkinson's Disease Source Type: news
Ssocio-economic status impacts mortality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhage in US
Americans in the highest socio-economic groups have a 13 per cent greater chance of surviving a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage than those in the lowest socio-economic groups, a new study has found. However, social and economic status have no bearing on mortality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhages, or SAH, in Canada, according to the study led by Dr. Loch Macdonald, a neurosurgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
New insight into body representation brain disorders provided by sensory illusion
People can be easily tricked into believing an artificial finger is their own, shows a study published in The Journal of Physiology. The results reveal that the brain does not require multiple signals to build a picture body ownership, as this is the first time the illusion has been created using sensory inputs from the muscle alone. The discovery provides new insight into clinical conditions where body representation in the brain is disrupted due to changes in the central or peripheral nervous systems e.g. stroke, schizophrenia and phantom limb syndrome following amputation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
Different risks for heart attack and stroke posed by different hormone therapy formulations
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 Food and Drug Administration-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: Health News from Medical News Today - September 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Menopause Source Type: news
