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Stroke News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Lack of Vitamin D in Diet Raises Stroke Risk in Japanese-Americans
Results of a 34-year study finds that Japanese-American men who eat foods that are low in vitamin D are at an increased risk of developing stroke later in life. The study was reported in Str...

Researchers Believe That Attention Key to Recovery in Stroke
Attention may have an important effect on the successful recovery from a stroke, feel researchers. People with a curious condition that causes them to apply make-up on only one side ...

Infusion of Enzyme in Scar Tissue Following Chronic Stroke may Make Patients Stronger
Patients could recover quicker if the scar tissue that develops following a stroke is modified by infusion of an enzyme, a new study conducted by researchers at Buck Institute for Research o...

Study Elaborates on How to Minimize Stroke Damage
Loyola University Medical Center researchers report that factors as varied as blood sugar, body temperature and position in bed can affect patient outcomes after a stroke. In a review art...

WHO Says High Blood Pressure Affects 1 in 3
One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, show WHO figures. Canada and the United States have the fewest patients, at less than 20 percent of adults, but in poorer cou...

Clot-busters Safe For Stroke Patients Taking Warfarin
A research has found that it's safe to treat acute ischemic stroke patients who take warfarin with the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). "Although it's the only drug ...

Better Outcomes for High Volume Stroke Centers: Study
Treatment is faster and better outcomes are seen at stroke centres dealing with a high volume of patients, finds study published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. The autho...

Speed of Drawing Lines to Connect Numbers may Help Assess If First Stroke Would be Fatal
The speed with which one draws a series of lines connecting numbers in an ascending order could be enough to test whether the first stroke could prove fatal among older men. More than 1,000...

Older Female Atrial Fibrillation Patients at Higher Stroke Risk
Elderly women with irregular heart beat (atrial fibrillation) are at higher risk for stroke than men, says study published in JAMA. "Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common ca...

Alternative Offered to Folks With A-Fib Who Can�t Take Blood Thinners to Reduce Stroke
People with atrial fibrillation (A-fib) who are incapable of taking blood thinners now have an alternative to lessen their risk of stroke, which is five times more usual in people with the r...

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