Drug May Aid Aspirin After Ministroke
Researchers have spotted a drug combination that may help survivors of ministrokes and minor strokes. The drug combination is aspirin and the antiplatelet drug dipyridamole. Dipyridamole is found in the drugs Aggrenox (which also contains aspirin) and Persantine.
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New Approach to Stroke Recovery
Stroke experts have successfully tested a noninvasive approach to help the brain recover from stroke. Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, and colleagues describe their experiment in the journal Stroke's early online edition. Fregni works in Boston, at the Harvard Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation.
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Stroke Patients Benefit From Lipitor
Stroke patients can reduce their risk of having a second stroke by taking high doses of a widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug, even if they don't have heart disease, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings from the five-year, international trial, make it clear that aggressive treatment to lower cholesterol should be considered standard therapy for stroke prevention in people who have already had a stroke.
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Stroke Costs Reaching Trillions
The financial cost of strokes in the U.S. will soar to more than $2.2 trillion over the next 45 years if no action is taken to improve preventive care or treatment, according to a new study. Researchers say much of the bill for those stroke-related costs will be for black and Latino stroke patients, who tend to suffer from strokes at an earlier age and receive poorer preventive care.
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Mexican-Americans 2nd Stroke Risk High
Mexican-Americans appear to face a higher risk of second strokes or death from a stroke. A new study shows that Mexican-Americans were more than 50% more likely to have a second stroke within a year of their first stroke compared with whites.
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Stroke Impacts Blacks, Hispanics More
After stroke, quality of life often suffers, especially for blacks and Hispanics. The CDC's Jipan Xie, MD, PhD, and colleagues report that news in the journal Stroke. "These findings support the importance of preventing stroke and minimizing its impact on survivors, especially among racial and ethnic minority populations," Xie's team writes.
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Can You Have a Stroke and Not Know It?
Many U.S. adults aged 45 and older may have had a stroke without realizing it, a new study shows. People should learn stroke's warning signs and immediately seek emergency medical help if those symptoms appear, write the researchers.
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Neck Surgery Less Risky Than Stents
When it comes to opening blocked carotid arteries, surgery may be less risky than stents. That's according to a study by French doctors including Jean-Louis Mas, MD, of the Hospitaux Sainte-Anne in Paris.
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New Therapy for Partial Paralysis
In some stroke survivors with partial paralysis on one side, short-term, intensive physical therapy that restrains their good arm and hand may lead to lasting improvements in the paralyzed one, a new study shows.
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U.S. Stroke Risk Drops
Americans have a lower risk of stroke than they did in previous decades -- but when strokes come, they are just as bad as ever. The findings come from the famous Framingham Study, which has looked at Americans' heart attack and stroke risks since the 1940s. The current report looks at the risk of stroke across the time periods 1950-1977, 1978-1989, and 1990-2004.
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Hip Hop to Stroke Awareness
What do hip hop and beauty salons have in common? Both offer captive audiences for teaching children the signs and symptoms of a stroke, researchers report.
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Snake Venom Extract Fights Stroke
An experimental drug derived from the venom of the feared Malayan pit viper shows promise for the treatment of stroke, an analysis of six studies involving over 4,000 stroke victims suggests. The drug, known as Viprinex, may double the time window during which victims can be treated following the onset of symptoms, researchers say.
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Stroke Symptoms May Differ in Women
Female stroke victims are less likely to report classic stroke symptoms than men -- one possible explanation for why they aren't as likely to get a crucial stroke drug. The new research found that female stroke victims are 33% less likely to report a classic stroke symptom when they arrive at the emergency room than their male counterparts.
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New Brain Stent Opens Blocked Arteries
Stents -- the small mesh tubes that revolutionized heart care -- may offer a new option for thousands of stroke survivors who still have blocked brain arteries despite optimal medical treatment. So suggests a study of 131 stroke survivors implanted with a novel type of stent designed to prop open severely clogged vessels in the brain.
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