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Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute and Harvard University have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke. Conversely, consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee was associated with a lower risk…
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First Study To Examine Soda And Stroke Risk
If your brother or sister had a stroke, you may be at least 60 percent more likely to have one too, according to research reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The findings come from the first large study to examine the combined influence of age, gender and sibling history on stroke risk…
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Your Stroke Risk Considerably Higher If A Sibling Has Had A Stroke
Stroke patients receiving in-patient rehabilitation are more likely to land back in the hospital within three months if they are functioning poorly, show signs of depression and lack social support according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. Hospital readmission for older adults within 30 days of discharge costs Medicare roughly $18 billion annually…
One of the most frustrating challenges for some stroke patients can be the inability to find and speak words even if they know what they want to say. Speech therapy is laborious and can take months.
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Stroke Rehab And More: Stimulating The Brain To Improve Speech, Memory, Numerical Abilities
People who have experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) experience high rates of depression, but up to two-thirds of them are undertreated, according to new findings from Duke University Medical Center. Daniel Laskowitz, M.D…
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Stroke And TIA Patients Often Under-Treated For Depression
A study published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveals that patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) who take the stroke prevention drug warfarin have a low risk of stroke or non-central nervous system (CNS) embolism. AF is the most common heart rhythm disorder…
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Atrial Fibrillation Patients On Warfarin Have Low Risk of Residual Stroke
If a paramedic suspects a patient is having a stroke, the paramedic is probably right, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found.
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Paramedics Skilled In Identifying Strokes
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain’s capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells could substantially aid recovery from stroke even days after the event…
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Drug Target Discovered For Stimulating Recovery From Stroke
New findings from a landmark research study led by Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) – a collaborative program between Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) – shows a promising new blood test may be useful in helping doctors predict who is at risk for an imminent heart attack…
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Potential New Blood Test To Predict Heart Attack Could Help More Than 2.5 Million Americans
Loyola University Medical Center is one of the major enrollers in a landmark clinical trial that found that plugging a hole in the heart works no better than drugs in preventing strokes. The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Closing Hole In The Heart No Better Than Drugs In Preventing Strokes
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