Sentences with phrase «cerebrovascular disease»

Too few patients with retinal infarction, or loss of blood flow in the eye, are evaluated for stroke risk or seen by a neurologist, putting them at increased risk for another stroke, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.

Dr. Healton has published extensively in clinical neuroscience, especially in cerebrovascular disease and the neurological complications of systemic diseases, as well as community - based health services research.

«Pulse wave velocity from the aortic arch provides functional information about vessel compliance that may help determine a patient's risk for cerebrovascular disease down the road,» said Kevin S. King, M.D., assistant professor of radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

But some provinces, notably Yunnan province on China's southern border, have much lower rates of death from cerebrovascular disease.

Cerebrovascular disease includes aneurysms, stroke, vertebral stenosis, carotid stenosis and intracranial stenosis, as well as vascular malformations.

Because the study can't prove causality, «women with cerebrovascular disease and osteoporosis should discuss this new information with their clinicians,» said lead researcher Dr. Silke Kern.

The drug improved mental alertness and memory in a group of 240 elderly patients affected by chronic cerebrovascular disease.

Medical researchers at the Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Center at the University of California, San Francisco, Children's Hospital examined data on 2.3 million children up to the age of 19 who were enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente managed - care plan in northern California from 1993 to 2003.

Small areas of brain damage caused by cerebrovascular disease are also associated with an increased risk of depression.

Further, other common neuropathologic indices, especially cerebrovascular disease and Lewy bodies can impair cognition, including episodic memory, the clinical hallmark of AD, and contribute to clinically diagnosed AD.

According to the institute's research, the probability of adult men dying early from traffic accidents or cerebrovascular disease more than halved between 1970 and 2006, while death by suicide held relatively steady through the years.

Cerebrovascular Disease as Initial Clinical Presentation in a Patient With Idiopathic Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Case Report

Dr. Richard Kraig is an expert in migraine patient care, migraine research and cerebrovascular disease research.

«Starting younger does help prevent cognitive dysfunction and cerebrovascular disease later in life, and the younger we start exercising the better we can help temper effects of other lifestyle choices of the young such as drinking, eating pro-inflammatory foods, and poor sleep schedules,» she explains.

Cerebrovascular disease mostly impacts the elderly or those individuals have a history of ischemic heart disease or diabetes.

There was less cerebrovascular disease, likely because the participants eat a lot of fish, which is known to prevent brain diseases.

The proportion of a rare type of stroke, called spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage or sSAH, is increasing among pregnant women, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.

In conclusion, «Our findings, together with previous reports, suggest that a dietary pattern of high intake of vegetables and fruits and adequate intake of fish and meat can significantly decrease the risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease in East Asian populations, particularly from cerebrovascular disease.»

Cerebrovascular disease includes all disorders in which an area of the brain is permanently or temporarily affected by bleeding or the lack of blood flow.

deCODE scientists have identified a gene causally involved in cerebrovascular disease, or stroke, and have mapped the chromosomal location of a gene linked to type 2 diabetes.

«Our results demonstrate that aortic arch pulse wave velocity is a highly significant independent predictor of subsequent white matter hyperintensity volume and provides a distinct contribution — along with systolic blood pressure, hypertension treatment, congestive heart failure and age — in predicting risk for cerebrovascular disease,» Dr. King said.

Those with cerebrovascular disease, congestive heart failure, or peripheral artery disease — conditions that are frequently seen alongside diabetes — had higher kidney disease risk as well.

In patients with chronic cerebrovascular disease and comorbidities, a shortened telomere G - tail length was associated with age and Framingham risk score, which is an algorithm used to estimate the 10 - year cardiovascular risk of an individual.

The researchers also found that the risk of dementia was higher in veterans with TBI who also had depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or cerebrovascular disease than in those with either TBI or these other conditions alone.

This was made up of 1.8 million deaths from coronary heart disease, one million from cerebrovascular disease (stroke) and 1.2 million from other cardiovascular diseases.

Study findings indicate that among older adults who had diabetes for a shorter duration (9 years or less), nonfatal cardiovascular complications had the highest incidence (coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and cerebrovascular disease), followed by diabetic eye disease and acute hypoglycemic events.

The incidence of nonfatal complications in older patients with diabetes for a longer duration (10 years or more) was similar, with rates for hypoglycemia similar to those of coronary artery disease and cerebrovascular disease.

Residents also experience high rates of adult and childhood obesity, diabetes, HIV / AIDS, and mortality from diabetes, coronary disease, and cerebrovascular disease.

The researchers studied the incidence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart and cerebrovascular diseases in a UK primary care database that included more than 9,000 women diagnosed with GDM between 1990 and 2016.

APOE ε4 has also been associated with atherosclerosis as well as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

Most involve patients in hospitals or other institutions, frequently diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's or cerebrovascular disease.

Nationwide, cerebrovascular disease (the main cause of stroke) is the leading cause of death for both men and women, and is generally responsible for more deaths in poorer provinces.

Our study also shows the importance of addressing the risk factors that lead to the most common causes of death in China, including cerebrovascular disease, smoking, and heart disease, as well as other important causes such as road accidents and cancer.»

Recent studies have shown an association between aortic stiffness and cerebrovascular disease.

Stony Brook University Cerebrovascular and Stroke Center (CVC) has a dedicated team with the expertise needed to diagnose and treat a wide range of cerebrovascular diseases.

Cerebrovascular disease has an important role in cognitive decline and dementia.

He oversees the Cerebrovascular Disease and Aging Laboratories, which focus on migraine, stroke, epilepsy and cognitive decline from aging.

This finding reveals unexpected roles for the microbiome and innate immune signalling in the pathogenesis of a cerebrovascular disease, as well as suggesting novel strategies for its treatment.

Researchers at The University of Texas have found that African Americans have impaired blood flow regulation in the brain that could contribute to a greater risk of cerebrovascular diseases.

Lower respiratory tract infections are the third most frequent cause of death worldwide, after coronary and cerebrovascular diseases (fig. 3).

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)- derived exosomes mediate tissue regeneration in a variety of diseases including ischemic heart injury, liver fibrosis, and cerebrovascular disease.

And that seems particularly true if a woman has already sustained an event causing poor blood flow to the brain (cerebrovascular disease), such as from a stroke, researchers said.

However, a more thorough analysis of the data revealed that the risk was being driven by women with signs of cerebrovascular disease — either a previous stroke or signs of white matter damage in their brains.

According to a study, regular moderate to intense exercise could protect the brain from «silent strokes,» small brain lesions that are the first sign of cerebrovascular disease.

Cerebrovascular disease is a group of brain disorders related to disease of the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Description: Clopidogrel is a medication used to inhibit the formation of blood clots in patients with coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease.

In terms of heart disease, Drs. Ingenbleek and McCully have shown sulfur deficiency not only leads to high homocysteine levels, but is the likeliest reason some clinical trials using B6, B12 and folate interventions have proved ineffective for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.