When trying to restore brain circulation to a stroke victim, minutes even seconds count. One minute faster led to 2 days more of health.
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Neurology group issues new guidelines on stroke prevention among people with irregular heartbeats atrial fibrillation, mainly. In summary: be more aggressive with blood thinners (anticoagulants).
A special joint panel of the Stroke and Heart Associations issued gender-focused guidelines on reducing the toll of strokes among women. In their vast literature review, surprising focus is on younger women.
According to the American Chiropractic Association, each year about 20 million Americans see a chiropractor with complaints
A new scientific statement in the journal Stroke, published by the American Heart Association (in concert with the American Stroke
The current JAMA s Clinical Evidence Synopsis, and an accompanying editorial, strongly suggest
It s better to walk than to not be active at all. Walking a predominant exercise among the elderly, holds more importance in the way it reduces stroke in older men in than you may think
A fairly large, retrospective study of almost 8,000 VA male patients who had a coronary arterial study and had low testosterone levels, found that those men who got supplemental testosterone had a 30% increase rate of CVD events, compared to those men who did not get testosterone treatment.
In the past, studies have highlighted the link between living near an airport and interference with sleep, sleep-disordered breathing
Overall, the average life expectancy in the United States is on the rise, and has been gradually increasing since 1990.
When dealing with ischemic stroke (the kind caused by a clot that obstructs brain blood flow), it has often been emphasized that early treatment say within a couple of hours
A Finnish study may have an important implications for patients with hypertension. The study found