Stroke:
News and research on Stroke, symptoms and treatment of stroke.
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Aug 29th, 2008
All drugs that are used to provide psychosis treatmend are associated to increased stroke risk and those people that are suffering from dementia are at double risk.
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Aug 26th, 2008
An expanding waistline - already known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease - may also increase risk for stroke and transient ischemic attacks.
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Aug 25th, 2008
Loyola researchers hope to reverse stroke damage by jumpstarting growth of nerve fibers.
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Aug 21st, 2008
The incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003.
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Aug 12th, 2008
Following an overall healthy lifestyle that lowers the risk of heart disease and diabetes can also dramatically lower the risk of stroke.
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Aug 11th, 2008
People who have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding after a stroke are more likely to die or become severely disabled than stroke sufferers with no GI bleeding.
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Aug 8th, 2008
Most stroke patients can’t recall when their symptoms started or do not arrive at the hospital in a timely manner, so they cannot be considered for time-dependent therapies such as the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator .
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Aug 6th, 2008
The most common underlying risk factors for childhood stroke are sickle cell disease and congenital or acquired heart disease.
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Jul 18th, 2008
Stroke in children is not as rare as once thought and the symptoms do not mirror stroke in adults.
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Jul 11th, 2008
Because of the demographic changes, there will be a marked increase in strokes in the coming years. Even in 2004, the medical costs for the care of stroke patients in Germany came to 7.1 billion euros.
