Because of the demographic changes, there will be a marked increase in strokes in the coming years. Even in 2004, the medical costs for the care of stroke patients in Germany came to 7.1 billion euros. In their original article in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, the neurologist Tobias Neumann-Haefelin of the Johann [...]
People who have good physical function after the age of 40 may lower their risk of stroke by as much as 50 percent compared to people who are not able to climb stairs, kneel, bend, or lift as well. For the study, researchers examined 13,615 men and women in the United Kingdom from 1993 to [...]
Hemorrhagic Stroke People taking cholesterol-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin after a stroke may be at an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke, or bleeding in the brain, a risk not found in patients taking statins who have never had a stroke. But researchers caution the risk must be balanced against the much larger overall benefit of [...]
Middle-aged people, who felt quite healthy, appeared to have several silent strokes without even knowing about that. Boston University School of Medicine examined 2040 patients of average age of 69 who were given magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan tests every four years. MRI scans brain for damaged tissues and stroke symptoms. The study found that [...]
Stroke in children is not as rare as once thought and the symptoms do not mirror stroke in adults. In its first scientific statement on the topic, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association addresses treatment, symptoms and risk for stroke in infants and children. The “Management of Stroke in Children” statement published in Stroke: Journal [...]
On June 1, 2006, she complained of stomach pain. On June 2, Ashton, diagnosed at birth with the blood disorder sickle cell disease, was admitted to the hospital. On June 6, she was transferred to another facility and given blood transfusions. The next day she seemed to be improving and even had enough energy to [...]
Most stroke patients can’t recall when their symptoms started or do not arrive at the hospital in a timely manner, so they cannot be considered for time-dependent therapies such as the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. “tPA has been demonstrated to reduce disability from [...]
People who have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding after a stroke are more likely to die or become severely disabled than stroke sufferers with no GI bleeding. “This is an important finding since there are effective medications to reduce gastric acid that can lead to upper gastrointestinal bleeding,” said study author Martin O’Donnell, MB, of McMaster University [...]
Following an overall healthy lifestyle that lowers the risk of heart disease and diabetes can also dramatically lower the risk of stroke, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the study, people with five healthy lifestyle habits had about an 80 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke compared to [...]
The incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003, according to a population-based study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers also found that survival rates improved leading to a rapid decline in the number of fatal events among diabetic people. “Prior research has suggested that the [...]
