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Forced body cooling known as therapeutic hypothermia has reduced in-hospital deaths among sudden cardiac arrest patients nearly 12 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to a Mayo Clinic study being presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology 2012 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The research is among several Mayo abstracts that will be discussed at the conference…
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In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Deaths Cut By Nearly 12 Percent By Body Cooling
Despite popular belief, gum disease hasn’t been proven to cause atherosclerotic heart disease or stroke, and treating gum disease hasn’t been proven to prevent heart disease or stroke, according to a new scientific statement published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal.
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Gum Disease Not Found To Cause Heart Disease Or Stroke
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
People with a history of high cholesterol who come from higher income countries or countries with lower out-of-pocket healthcare expenses, as well as those from countries with high performing healthcare systems, defined using World Health Organization (WHO) indices, tend to have lower subsequent cholesterol rates, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation…
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Association Between Countries’ Economy, Health-Care System And Cholesterol Rates
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
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
Ticagrelor, a potent anti-platelet medication, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the summer of 2011 and is known to significantly reduce the risk of stroke, heart attack, vascular death and death overall in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), which are characterized by symptoms related to obstruction in coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart…
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Ongoing Treatment With Ticagrelor Safe And Effective In Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
In 2011, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) convened the Stroke Progress Review Group (SPRG) to conduct a final 10-year review of the state of stroke research. The goal is to set priorities and shape future NINDS programs and policies. While SPRG found much available data for maximizing stroke rehabilitation effects, translation to clinical practice is inadequate…
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Review Of Stroke Rehabilitation And Recovery: Working Group Sets Priorities For Future Research
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