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Gender gap in stroke treatment likely due to delay by women seeking care
Women with clot-caused strokes are less likely than men to arrive at the hospital in time to receive the best treatment, according to a European study reported in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. In the study, 11 percent of women with acute ischemic strokes were treated with the clot-dissolving medication alteplase, compared with 14 percent of men. Study participants included 5,515 patients at 12 hospitals in the Netherlands...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Endovascular treatment for stroke; Supply of neurosurgeons; Obesity's effects on outcomes of subarachnoid hemorrhage
Despite recent discouraging results, endovascular treatment is still a "reasonable" treatment option for selected patients with acute stroke, according to a commentary in the August issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Mediterranean diet 'reduces genetic stroke risk'
Scientists say they have discovered that the Mediterranean diet may prevent a genetic risk of stroke since it appears to interact with a particular gene variant usually associated with type 2 diabetes. Researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University, and the CIBER FisiopatologÃa de la Obesidad y NutriciÏ�n in Spain, conducted the study, which was published in the journal Diabetes Care. The research team analyzed 7,018 men and women involved in the Prevencion con Dieta Mediterranea (PREDIMED) trial...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Treating post-stroke depression with Xingnao Jieyu capsules or fluoxetine
The occurrence of post-stroke depression results from the effects of biological, psychological, and social factors, likely involving neurotransmitters, neuroendocrine effects, nerve anatomy, neurotrophic factors, neural regeneration, inflammatory reactions, and social psyche factors. Synaptotagmin promotes neurotransmitter release, regulates the transfer of synaptic vesicle to synaptic active zones, and is a key factor in information transfer among neurons. The Xingnao Jieyu capsule has been shown to effectively relieve neurologic impairments and lessen depression...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Young people at higher risk for stroke
Fifteen percent of the most common type of strokes occur in adolescents and young adults, and more young people are showing risk factors for such strokes, according to a report in the journal Neurology. Neurologist Jose Biller of Loyola University Medical Center is a co-author of the report, a consensus statement developed by the American Academy of Neurology. Between 532,000 and 852,000 persons ages 18 to 44 in the United States have had a stroke. U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Study: Racial, ethnic differences in outcomes following stroke known as subarachnoid hemorrhage
Race or ethnicity can be a significant clue in the United States as to who will survive a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage and who will be discharged to institutional care, a new study has found. Compared to Caucasians, Asian/Pacific Islander patients were more likely and Hispanic patients less likely to die of a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or SAH, while in the hospital. African-American patients were more likely than Caucasians to require institutional care following discharge from the hospital, although their risk of death while in the hospital was similar...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Compound that may prevent stroke in survivors of brain aneurysms
Johns Hopkins researchers, working with mice, say they have identified a chemical compound that reduces the risk of dangerous, potentially stroke-causing blood vessel spasms that often occur after the rupture of a bulging vessel in the brain. They say their findings offer clues about the biological mechanisms that cause vasospasm, or constriction of blood vessels that reduces oxygen flow to the brain, as well as potential means of treating the serious condition in humans...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Rates of 'clot-buster' treatment for stroke increased by telestroke service
A telestroke service increases the rate of effective tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke treated at community hospitals, according to a report in the October issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Well: After a Stroke, Running a Half-Marathon
Six years ago I suffered a stroke that forced me to relearn how to walk. The other day I ran a half-marathon.
Source: NYT Health - October 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By NELSON GRAVES Tags: Running Stroke Voices medicine and health Featured Source Type: news
The next step in stroke prevention: addressing both blood clotting and protection of the blood vessels
As growing numbers of America's baby boomers reach retirement, neuroscientists are expanding their efforts to understand and treat one of the leading health issues affecting this population: age-related neurological deterioration, including stroke and dementia. One factor coming under increased study is cerebral microbleeds, experienced by nearly 20 percent of people by age 60 and nearly 40 percent by age 80...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Use of Buyang Huanwu Decoction to treat stroke
The traditional Chinese medicine Buyang Huanwu Decoction has been shown to improve the neurological function of patients with stroke. Baiyan Liu from Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China showed that Buyang Huanwu Decoction significantly increased the number of cells positive for 5-bromodeoxyuridine, a cell proliferation-related marker, microtubule-associated protein-2, a marker of neuronal differentiation, and growth-associated protein 43, a marker of synaptic plasticity in the ischemic rat cerebral regions...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Kinect-based virtual reality training promotes brain reorganization after stroke
The Kinect-based virtual reality system for the Xbox 360 enables users to control and interact with the game console without the need to touch a game controller, and provides rehabilitation training for stroke patients with lower limb dysfunctions.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Personal Health: With A-Fib Rhythms, Higher Odds of Stroke
About three million Americans have atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm abnormality that significantly increases the risk of stroke.
Source: NYT Health - December 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By JANE E. BRODY Tags: Personal Health Heart Stroke Featured Source Type: news
Stroke researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy
Stroke rehabilitation researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy. This new study supports behavioral classification of patients with spatial neglect as a valuable tool for assigning targeted, effective early rehabilitation. Results of the study, "Presence of motor-intentional aiming deficit predicts functional improvement of spatial neglect with prism adaptation" were published ahead of print in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on December 27, 2013.The article is authored by Kelly M.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 3, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Living near airport could raise stroke risk
People who suffer through overnight aircraft noise are at greater risk of heart disease and stroke, study finds
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: aircraft noise environmental health night stroke heart disease Source Type: news
