The Latest Biology News And Medical NewsBiology News 2Health News 2Biology News 3Health News 3
HOME >> MEDICINE >> NEWS
Heavy drinkers bear the heavy burden of bleeding stroke

DALLAS, May 3 Getting Americas heavy drinkers to cut down may be one of the most important ways to reduce the burden of hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke, according to two reports in todays Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The most common type of stroke is ischemic stroke, which results from an artery blockage that prevents blood from reaching part of the brain. Hemorrhagic strokes are less common, accounting for 10 percent to 20 percent of all strokes.

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), which accounts for about 7 percent of strokes, occurs on the surface of the brain and usually results from a ruptured intracranial aneurysm, a blood vessel in the brain that suddenly bursts.

These are not subtle strokes, says Brett M. Kissela, M.D., lead author of one of the papers and an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. They are usually painful and generally quite devastating and nearly 40 percent of the people who get them die within 30 days.

These strokes generally happen in young people, which means they die at an early age or lose decades of useful life because they are unable to work, Kissela says.

The study included 107 individuals with SAH and 197 without stroke who were participants in the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors and Hemorrhagic Stroke Study, conducted by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Participants came from Ohio and Kentucky hospitals within a 50-mile radius of the medical school.

Heavy alcohol users had more than a 10-fold increased risk of SAH compared to non-drinkers. Other important factors included hypertension (high blood pressure), smoking and having a relative with SAH.

Previous studies have yielded conflicting findings regarding the role of hypertension in SAH. However, Kissela and his colleagues found a strong association between the two.

The increased risk with a family history implies that genetic factors m
'"/>

Contact: Carole Bullock
carole.bullock@heart.org
214-706-1279
American Heart Association
2-May-2002


Page: 1 2 3

Related medicine news :

1. Heavy, lifetime alcohol users may be toasting metabolic syndrome
2. Heavy drinking raises the risk of early death after heart attack
3. Heavy drinkers use narcotics to relieve back pain, despite possible interactions, UMHS study finds
4. Heavy smokers see cigarettes as friends
5. Heavy alcohol consumption linked to colorectal cancer
6. Heavy menstrual periods associated with economic loss
7. Heavy drinkers seem to get a bigger bang from alcohol than do light drinkers
8. Heavy drinking by both sexes is a cause for concern
9. Ten-minute emergency room intervention for problem drinkers
10. Alcohol drinkers three times as likely to die from injury
11. Wine drinkers live longer than beer guzzlers

Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
TAG: Heavy drinkers bear the heavy burden bleeding stroke

(Date:11/25/2009)...kingTogethertoShareRecordsSafely,ImproveCare ,...partmentofVeteransAffairs(VA)andKaiserPermanenteto...andservicestoourNation,sheroes.VAandKaiserPermanen...lthrecord(EHR)informationusingtheNationwideHealthI...lthandHumanServices. ,, "Theabilitytosharecriti...
(Date:11/25/2009)...AKECITY,Nov.25/PRNewswire/--dazzlesmile,llc www.da...malhealthscience.com havefileda67-pagefederallawsu...m,Inc.,JesseWillms,FarendServicesLimited,andAtLast...dStatesDistrictCourtfortheDistrictofUtah,allegesma...mile(TM)brandedteethwhiteningproducts,violationsof...
(Date:11/25/2009)...URA,Fla.,Nov.25/PRNewswire/--DanielTouizer,CEOof ...nteedissuehealthinsurancebenefitprograms,isconcern...rmeansnearlyoneinfiveAmericansarewithoutafull-time...employmentratesaredeterminedbytheU-6number,whichha...Dani e l T ouizer ."Thesestatisticsarealarmin...
(Date:11/25/2009)... Two signaling pathways essential to normal human ... growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathways - interact...metastasis, researchers from The University of Tex... 25 issue of Molecular Cell . , This newly char...ponents known to correlate with invasive cancer - ...
(Date:11/25/2009)...) - The American Society of,Hematology (ASH) is p...ers with,the highest scoring abstracts in the cat..., graduate student, resident physician, and post-d...0 honorarium plus annual meeting,travel reimburse... Undergraduate,Student , Kimberly Fan , Dono...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:VA and Kaiser Permanente Invite Veterans to Participate in Health Record Pilot Program 2Health News:dazzlesmile Sues Epic Advertising and Jesse Willms 2Health News:Cinergy Health Commentary on Health Care for the Unemployed 2Health News:Crosstalk between critical cell-signaling pathways holds clues to tumor invasion and metastasis 2Health News:Crosstalk between critical cell-signaling pathways holds clues to tumor invasion and metastasis 3Health News:ASH announces 2009 Merit Award winners 2
(Date:11/24/2009)...sia/--ChindexInternational,Inc.,("Chindex")(Nasdaq...ern,healthcareproductsandservicesinthePeople,sRepu...dthe21stAnnualPiperJaffray,"Unplugged"HealthCareCo...aceHotel. , Managementiscurrentlyscheduledtop...one-on-onemeetingsthroughouttheday.Awebcast,ofthep...
(Date:11/24/2009)...-FirstCall/--Vermillion,Inc.(VRML)(PinkSheets:VRML...ndDisclosureStatementtoday,November24,2009,withthe...e.AhearingtoconsiderapprovaloftheDisclosureStateme...ringontheconfirmationofthePlanscheduledforJanuary7...msinfull.ThePlanisexpected,ifapproved,toallowholde...
(Date:11/24/2009)...ire-FirstCall/--ThoratecCorporation(Nasdaq: THOR )...pporttherapiestosave,supportandrestorefailingheart...lPiperJaffrayHealthCareConferenceonTuesday,Decembe...ieffinancialofficer,willprovideanupdateonthecompan...,PacificStandardTime). ,, Thepresentationwillbe...
Breaking Medicine Technology:Chindex International to Present at Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference 2Vermillion Files Plan of Reorganization 2Vermillion Files Plan of Reorganization 3Water quality in orbit 9906 1Water quality in orbit 9906 2Water quality in orbit 9906 3Water quality in orbit 9906 4Looking deeply into polymer solar cells 14009 1Looking deeply into polymer solar cells 14009 2Drug Offers Hope Against Tough to Treat Hypertension 56993 1Drug Offers Hope Against Tough to Treat Hypertension 56993 2Drug Offers Hope Against Tough to Treat Hypertension 56993 3
Other News:
...heimer's disease....... When his father developed...ole of constant guardian and guide, helping her hu...hat most of us take for granted......."As my fathe...ther would give him gentle prompts to keep him on ...
...hink has been 'trained' by scientists to forecast ...iminary study involving 100 women, the system corr... whether the disease would spread to other parts o...ve years without a recurrence of cancer.......Dr G...
...t an appetite suppressant drug, D-fenfluramine (D-...intake and body weight. The NIH-funded study sugg...athways affecting appetite, obesity, and anorexia ...ight control. Results appear in the July 26, 2002,...
..., cheap, and effective treatment for people with f...r pain and joint tenderness), finds a study in thi...ents with fibromyalgia who were attending a hospit...ne 1998. Patients were then randomly assigned to e...
health news:University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers 2health news:University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers 3health news:University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers 4health news:Computer predicts outcome of breast cancer 2health news:Computer predicts outcome of breast cancer 3health news:Drug targets brain circuits that drive appetite and body weight 2
...ay a bigger role in your risk for heart disease th...at rural residents were more knowledgeable about h...sidents, but that urban residents were more motiva...her, these differences persisted when the research...
...ine, a drug that was believed could be beneficial ...ood pressure due to impaired cardiac function) aft...h up to six months after a heart attack, according...udy is being released early to coincide with its p...
... receive preventive health examinations, as oppose... appear more likely to undergo testing for colorec...eport in the March 26 issue of Archives of Interna...Preventive or periodic health examinationsalso cal...
Contrary to widespread belief, total surgical replacement of arthritic shoulder joints carries no greater risk of complications than replacement of other major joints, a Johns Hopkins study suggests.
health news:Place more than race tied to heart disease risk 2health news:Drug does not reduce risk of death for heart attack patients with refractory shock 2health news:Preventive health exams may provide opportunities for cancer screening 2health news:'Shrug off' shoulder surgery myth, study suggests 2health news:'Shrug off' shoulder surgery myth, study suggests 3