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How People With Diabetes Can Lower Stroke Risk
After spending nearly two decades trying to manage her Type 2 diabetes, Agnes Czuchlewski landed in the emergency room in 2015, with news that she’d just experienced a heart attack. She also learned that she had metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes diabetes but also brings higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
“Because I needed to lose quite a bit of weight when I was first diagnosed, I was focused on the number I saw on the scale, and then on my blood-sugar numbers,” recalls Czuchlewski, 68, who lives in New York City. “I didn’t realize other numbers came into play, li...
Source: TIME: Health - November 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Supporting the Women in our Lives: Stroke Prevention
May is Stroke Awareness Month and May 10-16th is National Women's Health Week, making this the perfect time to talk about the special challenges women face related to stroke and how women can reduce their risk and protect their health. Being the mid-Atlantic Regional Health Administrator might make stroke prevention my professional duty, but it's my role as a father, husband, and son to so many special women that makes it my personal responsibility.
It's alarming to think that every 4 minutes someone in the United States dies of a stroke -- most of them women. Stroke -- which is sometimes called a brain attack -- happens...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UCLA, partners get $11M to develop stroke-prevention programs for minority populations
UCLA researchers and their partners across Los Angeles County have been awarded an $11 million federal grant to fund research on community-based interventions aimed at reducing the higher rates of stroke and death from stroke among disadvantaged Hispanics, African Americans and Asian Americans.
Research has shown that stroke risk can be substantially lowered by increasing physical activity, controlling blood pressure, adopting a healthy diet, quitting smoking, lowering cholesterol and, for certain individuals, taking medication like aspirin.
However, the underserved populations targeted by this research progr...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 1, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 1828: Stroke Prediction with Machine Learning Methods among Older Chinese
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Timely stroke diagnosis and intervention are necessary considering its high prevalence. Previous studies have mainly focused on stroke prediction with balanced data. Thus, this study aimed to develop machine learning models for predicting stroke with imbalanced data in an elderly population in China. Data were obtained from a prospective cohort that included 1131 participants (56 stroke patients and 1075 non-stroke participants) in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Data balancing techniques including random over-sampling (ROS), random under-sampling (RUS), and synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) were used...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - March 11, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yafei Wu Ya Fang Tags: Article Source Type: research
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Data Reliability and Factors Affecting Outcome After Stroke Using Electronic Administrative Records
Conclusion: Electronic administrative records from this cohort produced reliable outcome prediction and identified clinically appropriate factors negatively impacting most outcome variables following hospital admission with stroke. This presents a means of future identification of modifiable factors associated with patient discharge destination. This may potentially aid in patient selection for certain interventions and aid in better patient and clinician education regarding expected discharge outcomes.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
I Never Thought Stroke Would Happen to Me
by Myra Wilson, Stroke Survivor
On November 3, 2014, I was in nursing school working as a student nurse at a hospital in Seattle. My first sign that something was not quite right was when I was walking through the nursing station and both of my eyes went blurry. I could still see color but I couldn't see letters. It was blurry for about 30 seconds before clearing up again.
I was going to lunch and went to give a report to another nurse. The nurse noticed while I was speaking that I slurred my speech. I didn't notice my speech was slurred at all. It was at that time that I experienced a sudden sharp pain on the right s...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke Epidemiology and Risk Factor Management
This article reviews the current recommendations for the management of each of these modifiable risk factors.
Recent Findings: It has been documented that some blood pressure medications may increase variability of blood pressure and ultimately increase the risk for stroke. Stroke prevention typically includes antiplatelet therapy (unless an indication for anticoagulation exists), so the most recent evidence supporting use of these drugs is reviewed. In addition, emerging risk factors, such as obstructive sleep apnea, electronic cigarettes, and elevated lipoprotein (a), are discussed.
Summary: Overall, secondary stroke p...
Source: CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology - February 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research
Medical Management for Secondary Stroke Prevention
This article reviews the evidence base and recommendations for medical management for secondary stroke prevention.
RECENT FINDINGS
Recent developments for secondary stroke prevention include evidence to support the use of short-term dual antiplatelet therapy after minor stroke and transient ischemic attack, direct oral anticoagulants for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, reversal agents for direct oral anticoagulant–associated hemorrhage, and aspirin rather than presumptive anticoagulation with a direct oral anticoagulant for embolic stroke of undetermined source.
SUMMARY
Most strokes are preventable. The mainstays ...
Source: CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology - April 1, 2020 Category: Neurology Tags: REVIEW ARTICLES Source Type: research
Predicting ischemic stroke after carotid artery stenting based on proximal calcification and the jellyfish sign.
CONCLUSIONS The jellyfish sign, proximal Ca, and LDL cholesterol were considered to be important predictors for new DWI lesions after CAS. These 3 factors can be easily determined during a standard clinical visit. Thus, these 3 variables-especially the jellyfish sign and proximal Ca-may be useful for reducing the ischemic stroke risk in patients with stenosis of the cervical carotid artery.
PMID: 28686117 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - July 7, 2017 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Ichinose N, Hama S, Tsuji T, Soh Z, Hayashi H, Kiura Y, Sakamoto S, Okazaki T, Ishii D, Shinagawa K, Kurisu K Tags: J Neurosurg Source Type: research
The American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 and Incident Cognitive Impairment: The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study Epidemiology
Conclusions
Compared with low CVH, intermediate and high CVH were both associated with substantially lower incidence of cognitive impairment. We did not observe a dose-response pattern; people with intermediate and high levels of CVH had similar incidence of cognitive impairment. This suggests that even when high CVH is not achieved, intermediate levels of CVH are preferable to low CVH.
Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - June 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Thacker, E. L., Gillett, S. R., Wadley, V. G., Unverzagt, F. W., Judd, S. E., McClure, L. A., Howard, V. J., Cushman, M. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research
Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting stroke risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients
In conclusion, the nomogram can be used for individualized preoperative prediction of stroke risk in RA patients.PMID:34081620 | DOI:10.18632/aging.203071
Source: Aging - June 3, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Fangran Xin Lingyu Fu Bowen Yang Haina Liu Tingting Wei Cunlu Zou Bingqing Bai Source Type: research
PCSK9 Variants, LDL-Cholesterol, and Neurocognitive Impairment: The REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.
Conclusions -These results suggest life-long exposure to low PCSK9 levels and cumulative exposure to lower LDL-C are not associated with neurocognitive effects in African Americans.
PMID: 29146683 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Circulation - November 16, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mefford MT, Rosenson RS, Cushman M, Farkouh ME, McClure LA, Wadley VG, Irvin MR, Bittner VA, Safford MM, Somaratne R, Monda KL, Muntner P, Levitan EB Tags: Circulation Source Type: research
Cardiovascular/stroke risk prevention: A new machine learning framework integrating carotid ultrasound image-based phenotypes and its harmonics with conventional risk factors.
CONCLUSION: The AtheroRisk-integrated ML system outperforms the AtheroRisk-conventional ML system using RF classifier.
PMID: 32861380 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Indian Heart J - June 30, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jamthikar A, Gupta D, Khanna NN, Saba L, Laird JR, Suri JS Tags: Indian Heart J Source Type: research
A Comorbid Rat Model of Neuroendocrine-Immune System Alterations Under the Impact of Risk Factors for Stroke
Front Aging Neurosci. 2022 Jan 20;13:827503. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.827503. eCollection 2021.ABSTRACTHypercholesterolemia and carotid atherosclerosis contribute to the etiology of stroke. However, there has been a lack of appropriate comorbid animal models incorporating some of the ubiquitous characteristics that precede strokes. Curcumin is a natural active polyphenolic compound extracted from the rhizoma of Curcuma longa L. which possesses comprehensive bioactivities. The present study aimed to evaluate whether neurobehavioral deficits, neuroendocrine-immune dysregulations and cerebral microcirculation dysfunction, are ...
Source: Atherosclerosis - February 7, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bailiu Ya Xuezhi Li Jingyi Wang Mingsheng Zhao Ting Yu Haiying Wang Qing Xin Qinqin Wang Xin Mu Xuanyu Dong Yang Gao Huabao Xiong Hui Zhang Source Type: research
