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The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA) – packed with free peer-reviewed research on heart disease and stroke…
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Free-Access Online Journal Launched By American Heart Association
Stroke-related language impairment adds about $1,703 per patient to medical costs the first year after stroke, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association…
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Language Impairment Following Stroke Adds Thousands To Medical Costs
Women with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, are two to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack than those without it – yet it’s often unrecognized and untreated, especially in women, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. The statement is published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association…
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Need For Further Study Of Peripheral Artery Disease In Women
Air pollution, even at levels generally considered safe by federal regulations, increases the risk of stroke by 34 percent, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers have found. Writing in the Feb…
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Stroke Risks Increased By Air Pollution, Even A Moderate Amount
A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study published online in Nature Genetics. This is one of the few genetic variants to date to be associated with risk of stroke and the discovery opens up new possibilities for treatment…
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Genetic Variant Increases Risk Of Common Type Stroke
In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood fats) are the strongest risk factor for the most common type of stroke in older women – more of a risk factor than elevated levels of total cholesterol or of…
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Older Women With High Triglyceride Levels At High Risk Of Stroke
An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director Dr. Jeffrey L. Saver at the American Stroke Association’s 2012 international conference in New Orleans…
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New Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment
The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012…
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Clopidogrel With Aspirin Doesn’t Prevent More Small Strokes, May Increase Risk Of Bleeding, Death
The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012…
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Racial Disparities Likely Reduced By Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Prevention Efforts
Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012. “Among stroke patients, severe anemia is a potent predictor of dying throughout the first year after a stroke,” said Jason Sico, M.D…
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Patients With Anemia May Be At More Than Triple The Risk Of Dying After A Stroke
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