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Stroke in Asia: a global disaster
Although stroke is a world‐wide problem, the burden of stroke is particularly serious in Asia; its mortality is higher than in Europe or North America. The situation in Asia is dichotomized. Stroke mortality and case fatality has been declining in northern‐eastern countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and urbanized areas of China. This is attributed to both the risk factor control and stroke care improvement. However, declining stroke incidence is rarely observed, which is in part due to rapidly aging population. As a result, there is an increase in the number of stroke survivors who require long‐term, costly care....
Source: International Journal of Stroke - September 18, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Jong S. Kim Tags: Leading opinion Source Type: research

The Racial Gap in U.S. Stroke Deaths Got Worse During the Pandemic
NEW YORK — The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, government researchers said Thursday. Stroke death rates increased for both Black and white adults in 2020 and 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared with the five years before the pandemic. “Any health inequity that existed before seems to have been made larger during the pandemic,” said Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, a stroke researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix who was not involved in the new...
Source: TIME: Health - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

CARES (Changing and Advancing Risk factor control through Educations after Stroke): A Pilot Trial of a Transitions in Care Post-discharge Telephone Intervention for Stroke Patients (S13.006)
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a telephonic post-discharge intervention designed to improve access to care, reinforce self-management skills, improve health literacy, and screen for complications in a government-run safety net system. BACKGROUND: In the United States, risk factor control after stroke is poor, particularly among socio-economically disadvantaged populations with poor access to care. The immediate post-discharge period is a vulnerable time for stroke patients, given their risk of recurrent stroke, worsening symptoms, complications, and need for medication titra...
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Hudson, L., Corrales, M., Moreno, L., Valle, N., Razmara, A., Dutta, T., Ramirez-Gomez, L., Towfighi, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Epidemiology and Risk Factors Source Type: research

Stroke Burden in Malaysia
Malaysia is located in the heart of South East Asia with two land masses, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia which are separated by the South China Sea. Stroke or cerebrovascular disease is Malaysia ’s third leading cause of death. There were 47, 911 incident cases, 19,928 deaths, 443,995 prevalent cases, and 512,726 DALYs lost due to stroke in 2019. Successive national health and morbidity surveys from 2006 demonstrated a continuous rise in the prevalence of risk factor such as diabetes, hyp erlipidaemia and obesity. These risk factors are implicated in an increase in stroke incidence in those under 65 years of age, ...
Source: Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra - March 24, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Only the overworked die young
Follow me at @JohnRossMD Billy Joel was on to something. As the singer-songwriter suggested in “Movin’ Out,” working too hard really can give you a “heart attack-ack-ack…” And, as a recent study has also shown, stroke may be an even bigger problem than heart attack in people who are overworked. For the study, researchers from University College London compiled data on the relationship between working hours and heart attack risk in over 600,000 workers, as well as similar data on stroke risk in over 500,000 workers. They adjusted their data to compensate for individual workers’ differences due to healt...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - December 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Behavioral Health Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Prevention Stress overworked Source Type: news

How To Avoid China ’ s Medicine Monopoly
I want to share a shocking statistic with you… Around 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in America — both prescription and over-the-counter — are manufactured in China. I’m talking about drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, blood pressure and blood thinners, diuretics, aspirin, antibiotics, and a big chunk of the world’s insulin and diabetes drugs — just to name a few.1 We don’t even make penicillin anymore. The last penicillin plant in the U.S. closed its doors in 2004. Americans who rely on medicine are now almost entirely at the mercy of a country whose relations with the U.S. have become more ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Source Type: news

An Integrated Approach for Vascular Health: A Call to Action
Publication date: Available online 6 November 2014 Source:Canadian Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Blair J. O'Neill , Shadab N. Rana , Vincent Bowman Vascular diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction, most causes of heart failure, dementia, peripheral arterial disease, certain kidney, and many lung and eye conditions are a result of disorders in the blood vessels (large and small) throughout the entire human body. Vascular diseases are the leading cause of preventable death and disability in Canada 1 . Most vascular diseases share common risk factors (high blood pressure, diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity), which...
Source: Canadian Journal of Cardiology - November 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Abstract 140: Women of Color: Where Race/Ethnicity, Sex/Gender, Culture and History Affect Cardiovascular Health and Disparities Session Title: Poster Session I
The United States is in the midst of a historic demographic shift in its population that will have multiple societal impacts including healthcare issues. In 2043 it is predicted that the majority of the US population will be persons of color ("racial and ethnic minorities"). This new majority will be 53.4% of the nation by 2050. Of the 49 million uninsured in the US in 2011, 55% were persons of color who were only 33% of the population. Women of color are projected to increase in number from 57 million in 2010 to 107 million in 2050, from 36 percent to 53 percent of the total US female population. The Women of Color Health...
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - April 29, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Brooks, C. E., Mistretta, A., Brewinski-Isaacs, M., Miller, L., Cornelison, T. L., Clayton, J. A. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session I Source Type: research

Is Your Heart Older Than You? Maybe, Says New Report
NEW YORK (AP) — Your heart might be older than you are. A new government report suggests age is just a number — and perhaps not a very telling one when it comes to your risk of heart attack or stroke. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report takes a new approach to try to spur more Americans to take steps to prevent cardiovascular disease. CDC scientists estimated the average “heart age” of men and women in every state, based on risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity, and whether they smoke or have diabetes. Then it compared the numbers to average actual ages. AVERAGE PREDICTED HEART AG...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News CDC Framingham Source Type: news

Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies
The world of stem cells We know the human body comprises many cell types (e.g., blood cells, skin cells, cervical cells), but we often forget to appreciate that all of these different cell types arose from a single cell—the fertilized egg. A host of sequential, awe-inspiring events occur between the fertilization of an egg and the formation of a new individual: Embryonic stem (ES) cells are also called totipotent cells. The first steps involve making more cells by simple cell division: one cell becomes two cells; two cells become four cells, etc. Each cell of early development is undifferentiated; that is, it is...
Source: ActionBioscience - December 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news

Socioeconomic factors relating to diabetes and its management in India / 印度与糖尿病及其治疗相关的社会经济因素
Abstract Diabetes is an escalating problem in India and has major socioeconomic dimensions. Rapid dietary changes coupled with decreased levels of physical activity have resulted in increases in obesity and diabetes in rural and semi‐urban areas, as well as in urban‐based people living in resettlement colonies. Increasing risk has also been recorded in those who suffered from poor childhood nutrition and in rural‐to‐urban migrants. Social inequity manifests in disparities in socioeconomic status (SES), place of residence, education, gender, and level of awareness and affects prevention, care, and management. All th...
Source: Journal of Diabetes - July 30, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Usha Shrivastava, Anoop Misra, Rajeev Gupta, Vijay Viswanathan Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

More Than A Third Of Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep
We spend about one-third of our life doing it, but more than one in three Americans still aren’t getting enough sleep, according to a new government report.  In their first study of self-reported sleep length, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 34.8 percent of American adults are getting less than seven hours of sleep -- the minimum length of time adults should sleep in order to reduce risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, mental distress, coronary heart disease and early death. In total, an estimated 83.6 million adults in the U.S. are sleep deprived, the CDC repor...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Making Sense of Nutraceuticals in China
The Chinese nutraceutical market is considered the third largest in the world after the US and Japan, or the fourth largest if Europe is counted as a single market.Despite strong fundamentals and high rates of annual growth, though, the Chinese market remains some way from realizing its true potential. Its evolution is muddied by ambiguities around what nutraceuticals actually are and how they should be managed.The result has been polarization between over-zealous regulation of so-called health foods, and a grey market where products have skirted approval procedures through questionable positioning or by exploiting alterna...
Source: EyeForPharma - February 10, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Marc Yates Source Type: news