At three months of follow-up, patients hospitalized for a serious heart attack who were treated with the oral blood thinner rivaroxaban for a blood clot in the left ventricle did as well as similar patients who received standard ...
Mar 31, 2025
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The risk of a full-blown stroke will remain high for at least a decade after a person has a slight brush with stroke, in the form of a transient ischemic attack or minor stroke, a new study says.
Mar 28, 2025
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A group of 29 international experts says that simultaneous screening for hypertension and heart arrhythmia could prevent thousands of strokes.
Mar 27, 2025
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When someone has a stroke, it can accelerate the loss of cognitive ability over the coming years. Stroke survivors who have attended some level of higher education may face even steeper mental declines, according to a study ...
Mar 26, 2025
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Imagine you're at a dinner party and the person sitting across the table from you suddenly stops making sense, and not because of the glass of wine in their hand. Then maybe one side of their face starts to droop. The person ...
Mar 26, 2025
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An imbalance in ligands, which are molecules produced by the body and the gut microbiota, can affect a key receptor protein that plays a role in brain inflammation after stroke, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston, ...
Mar 25, 2025
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A new study by UCLA Health has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice.
Mar 21, 2025
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For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite incidence of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, and death within 30 days, according to a study ...
Mar 20, 2025
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As a nurse working in a neurocritical care, I witnessed the sudden and devastating effects of stroke on survivors and their caregivers.
Mar 20, 2025
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You might not remember what you ate for breakfast yesterday, but your body certainly does. For better or worse, your dietary history is embedded in your body. It's in your bones, gut, heart, blood, and brain. All the breakfasts, ...
Mar 18, 2025
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