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Study Shows Race and Sex Disparities in Prehospital Stroke Recognition
In this study, Govindarajan, from the University of California, San Francisco, led a diverse team of researchers comparing hospital discharge diagnosis to field impressions documented in EMS electronic charts from two California counties. The team used probabilistic linking to retrospectively associate EMS and hospital database records. They analyzed records from 14 hospitals in these two counties from 2005– 2007, and identified 10,719 stroke patients. Retrospective "data-mining" practices with large databases pose serious threats to the validity of a study. In this case however, researchers did a gre...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: David Page, MS, NRP Tags: Special Topics Patient Care Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news

Wisconsin Coverdell Stroke Program receives $3.75 million to enhance statewide stroke care
The Department of Health Services will strengthen coordinated stroke care systems statewide thanks to a 5-year, $3.75 million CDC grant to continue the Wisconsin Coverdell Stroke Program , health officials announced today. Wisconsin is one of only nine states to receive the funding. “Continued support for our stroke care initiative will help us increase the likelihood that patients throughout the state receive fast and high quality stroke care,” said Dr...(see release)
Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases - July 24, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Authors: yunkecfrrr Source Type: news

Cause-Specific Mortality as a Sequalae of Perioperative Stroke Following Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
In this study, we aim to establish the risk of cause-specific mortality associated with perioperative stroke following cardiac and vascular procedures at 30 days, 90 days, and 1-year postoperative. It is hoped that this fund of knowledge will enhance perioperative risk stratification and medical management for patients who have suffered a perioperative stroke. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study evaluating 277,654 cardiac and vascular surgical patients dually documented within the Inpatient Discharge Claims Database and the Pennsylvania Department of Health Death Statistics database. A univariate assessmen...
Source: The Neurologist - January 1, 2022 Category: Neurology Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Jones Memorial works toward stroke center designation
Jones Memorial Hospital will become a designated stroke center, with final approvals expected from the state Department of Health in early August. Department of Health officials locally and in Albany have recommended adding the Allegany County hospital to the network of designated stroke centers across the state. If approved by the Public Health and Health Planning Council, Jones would become the 120th designated stroke center in New York but the first and only in the Southern Tier region. Once…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - August 1, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Tracey Drury Source Type: news

Million hearts: prevalence of leading cardiovascular disease risk factors - United States, 2005-2012.
Abstract Each year, approximately 1.5 million U.S. adults have a heart attack or stroke, resulting in approximately 30 deaths every hour and, for nonfatal events, often leading to long-term disability. Overall, an estimated 14 million survivors of heart attacks and strokes are living in the United States. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with nonprofit and private organizations, launched Million Hearts (http://www.millionhearts.hhs.gov), an initiative focused on implementing clinical and community-level evidence-based strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - May 30, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ritchey MD, Wall HK, Gillespie C, George MG, Jamal A, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, CDC Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

Renee Joiner To Lead Stroke Awareness at UAMS (Movers & Shakers)
Renee Joiner has been named by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock as director of the Arkansas Stroke Awareness & Virtual Emergency Support program. Joiner replaces Michael Manley, who in December became director of clinical service integration and development for UAMS Medical Center. For the last six years, Joiner served as trauma section chief for the Arkansas Department of Health, where she worked for 28 years. Pete Biagioni has been named managing partner of the payer division of Cumberland Consulting Group of Franklin, Tennessee. He was president and CEO of Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Con...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - April 18, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Demographic Variance of Inpatient Hospitalizations from Stroke in the State of Missouri from 2000-2012
We examined the demographic change of stroke hospitalizations (by age, gender, and race) in Missouri from 2000-2012 using a nationally-recognized surveillance data system managed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Source: Value in Health - April 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: A Behera, C Vogt, E Armbrecht Source Type: research

New Multi-Institutional Partnership to Focus on Stroke Rehabilitation
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), Burke Neurological Institute, and Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) have been awarded a $5 million grant from the Empire State Development Corporation to speed the development of ground-breaking neurological treatments for those disabled from stroke.
Source: University of Rochester Medical Center Press Releases - May 20, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: University of Rochester Medical Center Source Type: news

One in 10 men aged 50 'have the heart of a 60-year-old'
"One-tenth of 50-year-old men have a heart age 10 years older than they are," BBC News reports. This is the finding of an analysis of 1.2 million people who used the NHS Heart Age Test. The principle behind the test is that you can "age" your heart through unhealthy behaviour such as smoking and being obese. Underlying conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which often have no noticeable symptoms, can also age the heart. An obese smoker in their 50s who has high blood pressure and high cholesterol could have the heart of a 60- or 70-year-old. The quick and simple test tells you the...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Source Type: news

Meta-analysis examining interventions aimed at reducing sedentary lifestyle in poststroke patients
Commentary on: Saunders DH, Mead GE, Fitzsimons C, et al. Interventions for reducing sedentary behaviour in people with stroke (Review). Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2021, 6: 1–19. Implications for practice and research The impact of stroke may lead to sedentary lifestyle among affected patients. The level of physical activity may act as a buffer to a better quality of life, however, sedentary behaviour is not associated with reduced or increased mortality in people affected with stroke. Further studies are required to bridge clinical and research gaps in this area. Context Sedentary behaviour is associated with health...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - September 21, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Lawal, M. Tags: Adult nursing Commentary Source Type: research

Lessons Learned Establishing a 24/7 Rapid Access TIA Service
In 2007, the UK Department of Health (DOH) published its National Stroke Strategy, which detailed 20 quality markers for delivering a high quality stroke service, one of which was that patients suffering a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke should be investigated and treated more quickly after symptom onset.1 Interestingly, the National Stroke Strategy also advised that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) should be performed within 48  h of symptom onset, although no evidence was provided to support this threshold.
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - January 23, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Ross Naylor, David Eveson Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Studies support broader use of cholesterol-lowering statins
The latest guidelines used to determine who should take a cholesterol-lowering statin to prevent heart disease appear to be more accurate and cost-efficient than the previous guidelines. That’s according to two studies led by Harvard researchers, both published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association. For many years, the main deciding factor in who needed to take a statin was the level of an individual’s harmful low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). Updated guidelines published in 2013 by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association moved away from LDL and ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - July 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Drugs and Supplements cholesterol high cholesterol statins Source Type: news

For post-menopausal women, vaginal estrogens do not raise risk of cancer, other diseases
This study, the first to examine potential adverse health effects in users of vaginal estrogen compared with non-users, suggests that vaginal estrogen therapy is a safe treatment for genitourinary symptoms such as burning, discomfort, and pain during intercourse associated with menopause.AUTHORSThe paper ’s authors are Dr. Carolyn Crandall of UCLA; Kathleen Hovey of the State University of New York at Buffalo; Christopher Andrews of the University of Michigan; Dr. Rowan Chlebowski of City of Hope; Marcia Stefanick of Stanford University; Dr. Dorothy Lane of the State University of New York at Ston y Brook; Dr. Jan Shifre...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 16, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

The changing patterns of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016
In this report, we present a detailed analysis of how the patterns of cardiovascular diseases and major risk factors have changed across the states of India between 1990 and 2016.MethodsWe analysed the prevalence and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) due to cardiovascular diseases and the major component causes in the states of India from 1990 to 2016, using all accessible data sources as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016. We placed states into four groups based on epidemiological transition level (ETL), defined using the ratio of DALYs from communicable diseases to those fro...
Source: The Lancet Global Health - September 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research