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Stroke rates among COVID-19 patients are low, but cases are more severe
(American Heart Association) The rate of strokes in COVID-19 patients appears relatively low, but a higher proportion of those strokes are presenting in younger people and are often more severe compared to strokes in people who do not have the novel coronavirus, while globally rates for stroke hospitalizations and treatments are significantly lower than for the first part of 2019, according to four separate research papers published this week in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Heart attacks, heart failure, stroke: COVID-19's dangerous cardiovascular complications
(University of Virginia Health System) A new guide from emergency medicine doctors details the potentially deadly cardiovascular complications COVID-19 can cause.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Soft robotic exosuit makes stroke survivors walk faster and farther
(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) Using an untethered version of their soft exosuit that carries its own battery and motor, Harvard and Boston University researchers showed in a cohort of six post-stroke survivors with hemiparesis that their device could significantly increase individuals' walking speed by an average 0.14 meters per second. These same individuals, when asked to walk as far as they can in 6 minutes, were able to go 32 meters farther, on average.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stroke doctors establish best practices to protect against COVID-19
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) To keep patients and health-care providers safe from COVID-19, while providing urgent treatment to stroke patients, extra precautions must be taken, according to new guidelines published in the journal Stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Focused ultrasound opening brain to previously impossible treatments
(University of Virginia Health System) Focused ultrasound, the researchers hope, could revolutionize treatment for conditions from Alzheimer's to epilepsy to brain tumors -- and even help repair the devastating damage caused by stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Genetic study ties higher alcohol consumption to increased stroke and PAD risk
(American Heart Association) Using genetic analysis, researchers found higher alcohol consumption increased risks for stroke and peripheral artery disease (PAD).Studies using genetic analysis don't rely on observational data, which often use self-reported data and could be subject to unreported risk factors.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking
(San Diego State University) The discovery of a common neural mechanism in speech and ASL errors -- one that occurs in just 40 milliseconds -- could improve recovery in deaf signers after a stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stroke experts offer guidelines for treatment during pandemic
(University of Cincinnati) Stroke researchers at the University of Cincinnati have released a new report recommending the proper protocol for delivering lifesaving treatment to stroke patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
AAN updates recommendation on closure of common heart defect after stroke
(American Academy of Neurology) New guidance from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) concludes that closure of a common heart defect called a patent foramen ovale (PFO) may be recommended for some people who have had a stroke. The updated practice advisory is published in the April 29, 2020, online issue of Neurology ® , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Heart disease more likely for adults with dysfunctional childhoods
(Northwestern University) Children who experience trauma, abuse, neglect and family dysfunction are at increased risk of having heart disease in their 50s and 60s. People exposed to the highest levels of childhood family environment adversity were more than 50% more likely to have a cardiovascular disease event such as a heart attack or stroke over a 30-year follow-up.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NIH BRAIN Initiative tool helps researchers watch neural activity in 3D
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Our ability to study networks within the nervous system has been limited by the tools available to observe large volumes of cells at once. An ultra-fast, 3D imaging technique called SCAPE microscopy, developed through the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Technologies (BRAIN) Initiative, allows a greater volume of tissue to be viewed in a way that is much less damaging to delicate networks of living cells.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers successfully repair stroke-damaged rat brains
(Lund University) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in restoring mobility and sensation of touch in stroke-afflicted rats by reprogramming human skin cells to become nerve cells, which were then transplanted into the rats' brains. The study has now been published in the research journal PNAS.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Single mutation leads to big effects in autism-related gene
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) A new study in Neuron offers clues to why autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more common in boys than in girls. National Institutes of Health scientists found that a single amino acid change in the NLGN4 gene, which has been linked to autism symptoms, may drive this difference in some cases. The study was conducted at NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
For stroke survivors, light physical activity linked to better daily function
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Stroke survivors who engage in a lot of light physical activity -- taking leisurely walks or attending to nonstrenuous household chores, for example -- also report fewer physical limitations than their more sedentary peers, a new study finds.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Ticagrelor alone, without aspirin, shows benefit in patients with diabetes
(American College of Cardiology) Patients with diabetes who stopped taking aspirin three months after the insertion of a coronary stent and then took the anti-platelet medication ticagrelor alone for a year had fewer episodes of bleeding and no increase in heart attacks, stroke or other adverse events caused by blockages in the arteries, compared with patients who took both aspirin and ticagrelor for a year. The research was presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with World Congress of Cardiology (ACC.20/WCC).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
