3 Risk Factors Do Most to Make a Stroke Deadly
Study Identifies Risk Factors Associated With Severe Stroke
Catriona Reddin, MB, BCh, from the University of Galway in Ireland, and colleagues examined whether the importance of individual risk factors for stroke differ by stroke severity. Stroke severity was assessed using the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score within 72 hours of hospital admission.
“Stroke can lead to disability or even death, yet there are a number of risk factors that people can modify with a change in lifestyle or medication,” said study author Catriona ...
But up to 80% of strokes may be preventable, which is why it’s so important to understand and mitigate your risk factors. That’s according to the American Stroke Association, which this week ...
The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just ...
Assessing when to initiate anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation is not improved by including gender, says the ESC in their ...
Just last month, the latest stroke update from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) study in The Lancet Neurology reported that "rises in ambient temperature (including ...
Stroke guidelines now include risks that are unique to women. The American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, released new stroke prevention guidelines this week ...
It is one of the largest international studies on stroke risk factors, involving more than 26,000 people across 32 countries, including almost 13,500 who had suffered their first stroke.
Over 600,000 Americans will have their first stroke this year, a preventable event if underlying risk factors are controlled or eliminated. Stroke is caused by lack of blood flow to a portion ...
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