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Emotional Effects Of Stroke 'As Devastating As Physical Effects' Says New Report
Too many stroke survivors and their families are abandoned when they leave hospital and left without the support they need to help them cope with the emotional impact of stroke. A new report published yesterday (Wednesday 1 May) by the Stroke Association reveals that the emotional impact of the condition can be as devastating as the physical effects. The charity's report, Feeling Overwhelmed, is based on the findings of a survey(i) of over 2,700 people affected by stroke...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity Suffers Days After Ischemic Stroke Leading To Serious Complications
While the effects of acute stroke have been widely studied, brain damage during the subacute phase of stroke has been a neglected area of research. Now, a new study by the University of South Florida reports that within a week of a stroke caused by a blood clot in one side of the brain, the opposite side of the brain shows signs of microvascular injury. Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and increases the risk for dementia...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
PTSD Affects 1 In 4 Stroke Survivors
One in every four survivors of stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack) develops PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) within twelve months, while 1 in 9 has chronic PTSD for longer than a 12 months, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center reported in the journal PLoS ONE. This means that almost 300,000 survivors of stroke or TIA develop PTSD symptoms each year in the USA as a result of their traumatic experience. What is the difference between stroke and TIA? - a stroke occurs when brain cells suddenly die because of a lack of oxygen...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Early Brain Stimulation May Help Stroke Survivors Recover Language Function
Non-invasive brain stimulation may help stroke survivors recover speech and language function, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Between 20 percent to 30 percent of stroke survivors have aphasia, a disorder that affects the ability to grasp language, read, write or speak. It's most often caused by strokes that occur in areas of the brain that control speech and language. "For decades, skilled speech and language therapy has been the only therapeutic option for stroke survivors with aphasia," said Alexander Thiel, M.D...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Breaking a sweat reduces stroke risk
If you work out enough to break a sweat, and do it regularly, you are less likely to have a stroke compared to people who are physically inactive, researchers from the University of South Australia and the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, reported in the journal Stroke. Dr Michelle McDonnell and colleagues found that self-reported physically inactive people have a 20% higher risk of stroke or mini-stroke (transient ischemic attack) compared to those who exercise enough to break a sweat four or more times a week...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
The stroke-lowering benefits of regular physical activity
Breaking a sweat while working out regularly may reduce your risk of stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. str In a study of more than 27,000 Americans, 45 years and older who were followed for an average of 5.7 years, researchers found: One-third of participants reported being inactive, exercising less than once a week. Inactive people were 20 percent more likely to experience a stroke or mini-stroke than those who exercised at moderate to vigorous intensity (enough to break a sweat) at least four times a week...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
'Majority' of stroke patients might have undiagnosed attention disorders
The majority of stroke patients may have attention disorders, most of which are not diagnosed, according to a study published in the journal Neurology. Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK analyzed 110 patients who were being treated for stroke at London's Charing Cross Hospital, alongside 62 participants who had not suffered from stroke. Five of the stroke patients had already been diagnosed with an attention disorder called "neglect" - a deficit of attention and awareness in one side of the body...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Brain damage reduced, brain hemorrhaging eliminated in rodents afflicted by stroke
An experimental drug called 3K3A-APC appears to reduce brain damage, eliminate brain hemorrhaging and improve motor skills in older stroke-afflicted mice and stroke-afflicted rats with comorbid conditions such as hypertension, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. The study, which appears online in the journal Stroke, provides additional evidence that 3K3A-APC may be used as a therapy for stroke in humans, either alone or in combination with the FDA-approved clot-busting drug therapy tPA (tissue plasminogen activator)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Mexican-Americans suffer worse outcomes after stroke
Mexican-Americans had worse neurologic, functional and cognitive outcomes 90 days after stroke compared to non-Hispanic whites, in a study reported in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.Mexican-Americans have increased stroke risk, but lower risk of death compared to non-Hispanic whites. The new research suggests that prolonged survival is at the expense of increased disability.The study's stroke participants were drawn from the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project conducted in a non-immigrant south Texas community.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 13, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Woman films herself having a stroke
After being misdiagnosed with stress, Stacey Yepes took this video selfie which helped doctors correctly diagnose that she was having a mini-stroke
Source: Telegraph Health - June 19, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: mini-stroke films herself having a stroke Stacey Yepes minor stroke captured on video stroke video video selfie Source Type: news
More Than 8 Hours Of Sleep Linked To Increased Stroke Risk
BOSTON (CBS) – Could getting more than eight hours of sleep a night be a bad thing? Many of us are lucky to get that much, but if we do, Dr. Mallika Marshall says it might be a warning sign for stroke.
The National Sleep Foundation says adults between the ages of 18 and 64 should get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, but a new study from the University of Cambridge looked at more than 9,000 middle-aged and older adults and found that those who slept for more than eight hours a night were 46% more likely to have a stroke over the nine and a half years than people who slept six to eight hours a night.
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - February 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Dr. Mallika Marshall Sleep Stroke Source Type: news
Stroke Risk Up As Temperatures Drop
Cold weather sends blood pressures soaring putting people at risk of stroke The current cold weather spell is putting more people at risk of stroke as blood pressures increase as a result of the freezing temperatures. High blood pressure is the single biggest risk factor for stroke and research has shown that colder temperatures can be linked to increased blood pressure, especially in older people...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
First Stroke Patients In Florida Treated In UM Stem Cell Trial
The first two stroke patients have been enrolled in a phase 2 clinical trial of a revolutionary new treatment for ischemic stroke being conducted at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. The trial, using a patient's own bone marrow stem cells, is the first intra-arterial stroke stem cell trial in the U.S., and the two UM/Jackson patients are the first in Florida to participate. Led by Dileep Yavagal, M.D...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Carotid Bypass Surgery Does Not Improve Cognition After Stroke
Patients who have suffered from stroke and receive carotid bypass surgery - which improves blood flow to the brain - see no overall improvement in cognitive performance, researchers informed at The American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery involves connecting a scalp artery outside the brain to a brain artery, bypassing the blocked carotid artery, in an effort to restore blood flow to the brain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Survivors Of Stroke In Infancy Prone To Seizures, Epilepsy
About one-third of American infants and children who suffer bleeding into brain tissue, may later have seizures and as many as 13 percent will develop epilepsy within two years, according to new research reported at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. Bleeding into brain tissue is a type of stroke called intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Each year, an estimated 6.4 newborns and children per every 100,000 in the United States suffer strokes. About half of the strokes are hemorrhagic, typically caused by rupturing of weakened or malformed blood vessels...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
