Researchers link stroke patients' anger and aggression to brain injury
ST. PAUL, MN The anger and irritability stroke patients exhibit may have more to do with an injury to the brain during the stroke than it does post-stroke depression, according to a study published in Neurology, the scientific jou...CRP levels predict risk of sudden death
...vels of circulating CRP can predict risk of future stroke and heart attacks. In unstable angina, elevated CRP levels are associated with poorer disease prognosis. This study shows CRP is also significantly elevated in patients with coronary artery disease, both with and without acute coronary thrombosis. ......racey Benn, and Neil Scolding Management of acute stroke Kennedy R Lees Growth-factor gene therapy fo...n Zambia Gretchen L Birbeck Forum How should stroke services be organised? Peter Langhorne, Dominique Cadilhac, Valery Feigin, Richard Grieve, Ming...Statin drugs may lower risk of Alzheimers
...age, sex, education, and history of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The relationship between statins and risk of Alzheimers was no different for people with the gene variant associated with an increased risk of Alzheimers, apolipoprotein E ?4, or apoE-?4. The relationship between statins and Alzheimers ...Does weather play a role in stroke?
... association between weather and the occurrence of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). Results of the 14-year longitudinal study of 3,289 first-time stroke patients are being presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Denver April 13-...Beyond obesity: waist-to-hip ratio may be better predictor of stroke risk
...ase. Less clear is the relationship of obesity to stroke risk. Researchers have recently identified that w...ody mass index (BMI), may be a better predictor of stroke risk, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. In ...Testosterone may reduce risk of stroke in men; Estrogen levels not related to stroke
...evels of testosterone are related to lower risk of stroke in men. This lower stroke risk was only seen in men who do not smoke, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of ...Lack of awareness of acute stroke symptoms and treatment
...thrombolytic, or clot-busting, treatment for acute stroke victims may be underutilized due to poor recognition of stroke symptoms and inadequate knowledge of acute treatment options. This conclusion emphasizes the need f......e in lowering the risk of a second heart attack or stroke by blocking TxA2 formation by COX 1, thereby thinning the blood," said Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, chair of the Penn Department of Pharmacology and director of the Penn Center for Experimental Therapeutics. "We had previously found evidence that selec...Racial disparity in cancer survival: Are other factors at work?
...n blacks was due to other causes like heartattack, stroke or diabetes, rather than more aggressivecancer." The study was conducted to determine if there was evidencein the literature of racial disparities in survival whereblacks and whites had received the same treatments forcancer at the same stage. A revi...MMP enzymes play key role in stability and breakdown of atherosclerotic plaques
... structural failure that leads to heart attack and stroke will describe recent results of her work at the Ex...eading to myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke begins with weakening of the arterial tissue, followed by destabilization of atherosclerotic plaques...Mercury ups heart disease risk
...ry event, like a heart attack, or angina pectoris, stroke or other cardiovascular event. The researchers controlled for other risk factors that could have affected their results, including age, levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, good cholesterol), low-density lipoprotein (LDL, bad cholesterol), trigl...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
A heart attack or stroke in a close family member should send a signal that... each participants risk level for heart attack and stroke at the start of the study by examining such risk factors as weight, smoking and blood cholesterol. T...More evidence of possible link between hearing loss and CVD
...e study also found that a self-reported history of stroke or angina was not associated with the results of the cochlear function test. Torre says this cross-sectional study provides preliminary evidence of an association between cardiovascular disease and abnormal cochlear function, particularly for women w...Controlling blood pressure early prevents heart disease in elderly
...e cardiovascular events like heart attack, angina, stroke or heart failure than are elderly individuals with normal blood pressure," said presenter Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at GSPH. "However, hypertensive study participants who underwent treatment for their high blood p...Calcification of breast blood vessels may predict stroke risk
...cation had a 54 percent increased risk of ischemic stroke compared to women without calcification, says Carl... 40, eventually may be used for early detection of stroke risk among women. But it is too soon to recommend mammography for this purpose, says Iribarren. M...Mexican Americans more likely to die of heart disease than Caucasians
...r disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease, stroke and other circulatory disorders, with 92 from coronary heart disease. Adjusted for age and gender, U.S.-born Mexican Americans were 1.4 times as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as non-Hispanic whites, while Hispanics born in Mexico were 1.2 ...General public fails to recognise early signs of stroke
...ot find it easy to recognise the early symptoms of stroke because they vary so much, and this often results ...symptoms was not easy. Many patients who had had a stroke did not initially take their symptoms seriously because the symptoms were not the same as those they...Heavy drinkers bear the heavy burden of bleeding stroke
...merican Heart Association. The most common type of stroke is ischemic stroke, which results from an artery b... included 107 individuals with SAH and 197 without stroke who were participants in the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors and Hemorrhagic Stroke Study, co...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...tors may need to add treatment for osteoporosis to stroke rehabilitation therapy, according to a report in t... that regional osteoporosis of a limb paralyzed by stroke occurs rapidly after immobilization. More widespread osteoporosis occurs later. "Osteoporosis is a...