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Incidence of Stroke and Ischemic Stroke Subtypes: A Community-Based Study in Brno, Czech Republic
Conclusions: The stroke incidence is lower than that previously reported for the CR and Eastern Europe probably reflecting socioeconomic changes in post-communistic countries in the region. These findings could contribute to stroke prevention strategies and influence health policies.Cerebrovasc Dis
Source: Cerebrovascular Diseases - December 10, 2020 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Interventions to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness in community health and hospital settings.
CONCLUSIONS: Our review identified that interactional patient-facing interventions and multi-component programmes (including staff) to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness may improve patient and family knowledge about danger signs and care-seeking responses, and probably have few adverse effects on patient's anxiety levels when compared to usual care. Multi-component interventions probably have little impact on mortality rates. Further high-quality trials are required using multi-component interventions and a focus on relational elements of care. Cognitive and be...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - December 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mackintosh NJ, Davis RE, Easter A, Rayment-Jones H, Sevdalis N, Wilson S, Adams M, Sandall J Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Food as Prevention – Rising to Nutritional Challenges
Mothers and their children gather at a community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, Madagascar, to learn more about a healthy diet. Credit: Alain Rakotondravony/IPSBy Gabriele RiccardiNAPLES, Italy, Nov 25 2020 (IPS) The risks factors contributing to the dramatic rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in recent decades have been known for a long time but the Covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed our collective failure to deal with them. Reporting on the findings of the latest Global Burden of Disease Study, The Lancet warns of a “perfect storm” created by the interaction of the highly infectious C...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gabriele Riccardi Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foun Source Type: news

Hemoglobin Improvement is Positively Associated with Functional Outcomes in Stroke Patients with Anemia
Anemia is a prevalent concern in geriatric medicine. Previous studies have highlighted the high prevalence and adverse healthcare outcomes of anemia in older adults.1,2 Anemia, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a hemoglobin level below 12 and 13 g/dL in women and men, respectively,3 is common in older adults, and an estimated 13% of older adults over age 70 are anemic.1,4 Moreover, anemia has been associated with poor physical performance and disability, frailty, decreased quality of life, and increased mortality rate in community-dwelling older adults.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - November 11, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Yoshihiro Yoshimura, Hidetaka Wakabayashi, Ai Shiraishi, Fumihiko Nagano, Takahiro Bise, Sayuri Shimazu Source Type: research

Association of obesity and metabolic syndrome among urban dwellers of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Conclusions: As the prevalence of MetS is higher among obese individuals, health interventions required to reduce the morbidity/mortality and need to be addressed in adult populations.
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - October 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Senkadhirdasan Dakshinamurthy Vartika Saxena Ranjeeta Kumari Anissa Atif Mirza Minakshi Dhar Source Type: research

Renin inhibitors versus angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for primary hypertension.
CONCLUSIONS: For the treatment of hypertension, we have low certainty that renin inhibitors (RI) and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors do not differ for all-cause mortality and myocardial infarction. We have low to moderate certainty that they do not differ for adverse events. Small reductions in blood pressure with renin inhibitors compared to ACE inhibitors are of low certainty.  More independent, large, long-term trials are needed to compare RIs with ACE inhibitors, particularly assessing morbidity and mortality outcomes, but also on blood pressure-lowering effect. PMID: 33089502 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - October 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wang GM, Li LJ, Tang WL, Wright JM Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

High BMI: an important health risk factor among older adults in Ghana.
CONCLUSION: Prevalence of obesity and overweight in Ghana is high and increasing, which poses a health risk at the individual and population levels. Inter-sectorial and multidisciplinary measures in line with the national non-communicable disease policies aimed at curbing this trend are imperative. PMID: 33054895 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - October 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yorke E, Tetteh J, Boima V, Yawson AE Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research

Alcohol intake reduction for controlling hypertension.
CONCLUSIONS: An intervention for decreasing alcohol intake consumption did not result in differences in systolic and diastolic blood pressure when compared with a control intervention, although there was a reduction in alcohol intake favouring the active intervention. No differences were found either for overall mortality, cardiovascular mortality or cardiovascular events. No data on serious adverse events or quality of life were available to assess. Adequate randomised controlled trials are needed to provide additional evidence on this specific question. PMID: 32960976 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 20, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Acin MT, Rueda JR, Saiz LC, Parent Mathias V, Alzueta N, Solà I, Garjón J, Erviti J Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Impact of the preoperative body mass index on the postoperative outcomes in patients with completely resected non-small cell lung cancer: A retrospective analysis of 16,503 cases in a Japanese Lung Cancer Registry Study
Obesity is responsible for multiple chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, stroke, and several types of cancer [1]. The body mass index (BMI) —as an easy-to obtain, acceptable proxy for thinness and fatness—has been found to be associated with health risk and death in many populations. According to the World Health Organization definition, the normal range of BMI is defined as 18.5 to
Source: Lung Cancer - September 18, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Koichi Fukumoto, Shoichi Mori, Yasushi Shintani, Jiro Okami, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ohtsuka, Shinichi Toyooka, Takeshi Mori, Shun-ichi Watanabe, Hisao Asamura, Masayuki Chida, Hiroshi Date, Shunsuke Endo, Takeshi Nagayasu, Ryoichi Nakanishi, Etsuo Miyaoka, Source Type: research

Cross-diagnostic scale-banking using Rasch analysis: Developing a common reference metric for generic and health condition-specific scales in people with rheumatoid arthritis and stroke.
CONCLUSION: This study provides a transformation table to enable direct comparisons among instruments measuring physical functioning commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis (HAQ) and stroke (FIMTM motor scale), as well as in people with disability in general (WHODAS 2.0). PMID: 32909047 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - September 12, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Tags: J Rehabil Med Source Type: research

Blood pressure targets for the treatment of people with hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
CONCLUSIONS: We found there is probably little to no difference in total mortality and cardiovascular mortality between people with hypertension and cardiovascular disease treated to a lower compared to a standard blood pressure target. There may also be little to no difference in serious adverse events or total cardiovascular events. This suggests that no net health benefit is derived from a lower systolic blood pressure target. We found very limited evidence on withdrawals due to adverse effects, which led to high uncertainty. At present, evidence is insufficient to justify lower blood pressure targets (135/85 mmHg or le...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Saiz LC, Gorricho J, Garjón J, Celaya MC, Erviti J, Leache L Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Stroke literacy in the population of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia; immediate steps are essential to bridge the gap
Stroke is one of the core non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which is preventable and demands appropriate preventive measures for reducing disease burden.1 Stroke has become the major challenge to health care system in Saudi Arabia (SA). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), stroke was the second commonest cause of death after coronary artery disease with deaths reaching 11, 409, or 11.7% of total deaths. The age adjusted deaths rate was 89.82 per 100,000 population.2 A recently published study reported an incidence rate for the first-time ever stroke as 57.64 per 100,000 person-years.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - August 11, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Azra Zafar, Aishah Ibrahim Albakr, Rizwana Shahid, Saima Nazish, Danah Aljaafari, Fahd Ali Alkhamis, Ahmed Abdulfattah Aldajani, Amir H. Msmar, Ismail A. Khatri Source Type: research

Long-term exposure to PM and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
The objective of this review is to support the derivation of updated guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) by performing a systematic review of evidence of associations between long-term exposure to particulate matter with diameter under 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and particulate matter with diameter under 10 µm (PM10), in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality. As there is especially uncertainty about the relationship at the low and high end of the exposure range, the review needed to provide an indication of the shape of the concentration-response function (CRF). We systematically searched MEDLINE and EMB...
Source: Environment International - July 19, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chen J, Hoek G Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research

The Functionality, Evidence, and Privacy Issues Around Smartphone Apps for the Top Neuropsychiatric Conditions.
CONCLUSIONS: Most apps on the market targeted migraine, depression, and anxiety and contained interventions, although most of the interventions did not appear to be evidence based. Additionally, although most apps had privacy policies, lay people may have difficulty understanding these policies due to their complexities. PMID: 32669020 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences - July 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci Source Type: research

Evaluation of the recovery outcome of poststroke cognitive impairment after cluster needling of scalp acupuncture therapy based on functional near ‐infrared spectroscopy
ConclusionsOur results suggest that cluster needling of scalp acupuncture is an effective treatment against PSCI and shed light on its application on other neurological disorders.
Source: Brain and Behavior - July 7, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Jing Chen, Hui Li, Chao Zeng, Jingge Li, Bin Zhao Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH Source Type: research