Sentences with phrase «infarction stroke»

About 70 patients were eligible based on their diagnosis of a large supratentorial hemispheric infarction stroke, and 40 enrolled in the study.

As many as 80 percent of patients with large supratentorial hemispheric infarction strokes die, but research by Mayo Clinic and other medical experts has uncovered ways to significantly reduce deaths in these patients.

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In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

A new study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association links reduced consumption of trans fats found in things like frying oils to reduced instances of myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) and strokes reported in New York counties that enacted bans.

• Publication: High - Sensitivity C — Reactive Protein and Lipoprotein - Associated Phospholipase A2 Stability Before and After Stroke and Myocardial Infarction (google.com)

He emboldens a passage that says «The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer».

Stroke is the fifth - leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in every 20 deaths, but less is known about retinal infarction, which may go undetected and under - treated.

The findings illustrate the importance of expediting stroke evaluation testing for those who have experienced a retinal infarction, and for increased awareness and understanding about retinal infarctions and how they may signal future strokes.

Retinal infarction is a form of ischemic stroke in the eye.

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 clinistroke 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 clinistroke, 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 cliniStroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and cliniStroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.

Merkler plans to study the connections between retinal infarction and stroke using brain magnetic resonance imaging tests to see what's happening.

The study showed that 1 in 100 patients in the study experienced an ischemic stroke within 90 days of a retinal infarction.

Retinal infarction may provide an opportunity in preventing stroke, explained lead study author Alexander Merkler, M.D., a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.

The association between the two conditions remained significant even when researchers adjusted for other risk factors, including age, gender, race, body mass index, physical activity, history of alcohol use and smoking, and history of other conditions like myocardial infarction, stroke and diabetes mellitus.

Secondary endpoints were total coronary heart disease, defined as fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, and total stroke, which included all fatal and non-fatal strokes.

In patients undergoing transradial primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), there was no significant difference in the rate of a composite of death, myocardial infarction and stroke whether they were anticoagulated with bivalirudin or unfractioned heparin, according to a study in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

After these adjustments, the odds ratio of the composite endpoint of death, myocardial infarction or stroke for bivalirudin versus heparin was not statistically significant (0.95); the odds ratio for acute stent thrombosis was 2.11 for bivalirudin versus heparin.

As a postdoc I cloned the CCR6 chemokine receptor and now as a group leader I head a team looking at chemokine biology in atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies the development of myocardial infarction and strokes.

Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, Distinguished University Professor, a co-author of the paper, concluded that «these novel data showing BSCB damage in subacute and chronic ischemic stroke may lead to development of new therapeutic approaches for patients with ischemic cerebral infarction.»

Many patients face delayed diagnosis and treatment, meaning the disease progresses and causes further ill health and risk of complications, for example myocardial infarction, blindness, and stroke, which are difficult and expensive to treat.

Participants subsequently reported any interim physician - diagnosed events including myocardial infarction, stroke, and revascularization.

Frits R. Rosendaal, M.D., Ph.D., of Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, and coauthors determined long - term mortality and morbidity in young women who survived myocardial infarction (heart attack) or ischemic stroke compared with a control group.

Furthermore, when the authors examined the outcomes individually, the OSA risk factors were associated with increased risk for all - cause mortality, hospitalization for congestive heart failure, and stroke, but not for acute myocardial infarction.

The patients were followed up through provincial health administrative data (Ontario, Canada) until May 2011 for CV disease (myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, revascularization procedures) and death from any cause, analyzed as a composite outcome.

The researchers focused on specific cardiovascular disease diagnoses: myocardial infarction (heart attack), chronic heart failure, stroke, and ischemic heart disease.

For example aspirin reduces the risk of stroke but does not affect the occurrence of myocardial infarction in women, while in men aspirin reduces the risk of myocardial infarction with a non-significant increase in the risk of stroke.

The efficacy of statin treatment was analysed on the composite outcome of Major Cardiovascular Events (MACE), defined as all cause mortality, non-fatal myocardial infarction and non-fatal stroke.

Turner likens the use of the VIPS device in detecting severe stroke to the use of electrocardiography (ECG) to definitively detect acute myocardial infarction.

Researchers identified patients from 119 practices who were prescribed aspirin between January 2008 and June 2013, excluding patients receiving aspirin as a secondary prevention due to history of cardiovascular disease such as myocardial infarction, prior stroke, and atrial fibrillation.

People who survive a stroke or a mini-stroke without early complications have an increased risk of death, another stroke or heart attack (myocardial infarction) for at least 5 years following the initial stroke, found a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

«We are testing whether liposomal Wnts can accelerate skin - wound healing and healing after myocardial infarction [heart attack], stroke, and corneal and retinal injury,» says Helms.

J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.

Obesity in humans is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and certain cancers (7 — 9).

In humans, the incidence or severity of many diseases, such as asthma, myocardial infarction, stroke, and depression exhibit diurnal variation.

The paper, entitled «The gene encoding 5 - lipoxygenase activating protein confers risk of myocardial infarction and stroke,» presents the results of a major population study of heart attack linking a version of the gene encoding FLAP with a nearly twofold increased risk of heart attack.

In addition, women have greater increases of cardiovascular risk, myocardial infarction, and stroke mortality than men, compared with nondiabetic subjects.

Baseline medical conditions, such as previous myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia, were defined as a history of physician diagnosis, measured phenotypes that met clinical thresholds for a specific condition, or, when appropriate, the combination of both methods.

Long - term use of proton pump inhibitors, dose — response relationship, and associated risk of ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction.

Among the 50 trials, 30 were primary prevention trials (general populations, smokers and workers exposed to asbestos, patients with oesophageal dysplasia, male physicians, patients with non-melanoma skin cancer, postmenopausal women, patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis, patients with end stage renal disease, ambulatory elderly women with vitamin D insufficiency, patients with chronic renal failure, older people with femoral neck fractures, patients with diabetes mellitus, elderly women with a low serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration, health professionals, people with a high fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration, or kidney transplant recipients), and 20 were secondary prevention trials (patients with cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, transient ischaemic attack, stroke, angiographically proved coronary atherosclerosis, vascular disease, or aortic valve stenosis).

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

The formation of blood clots in atherosclerotic arteries results in myocardial infarction and stroke.

Of the cases of ischemic stroke, it was determined there were 234 cardioembolic infarctions, 101 atherotherombotic infarctions and 269 lacunar infarctions, with another 445 cases which weren't part of the subtype analysis.

1,680 strokes were documented: 1,310 ischemic strokes / cerebral infarctions (due to blockages), 79 subarachnoid hemorrhages (due to bleeding on the brain surface), 154 intracerebral hemorrhages (due to bleeding in the brain), as well as 137 unspecified strokes.

Total fat and types of fat were not associated with cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiovascular disease mortality, whereas saturated fat had an inverse association with stroke.

A history of CVD at baseline (angina, myocardial infarction, or stroke) was combined and termed any CVD at baseline.

TMA converts to TMAO in the liver — serum TMAO is associated with an increased 3 yr risk myocardial infarction, stroke, and death.

Vigen R. Association of testosterone therapy with mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke in men with low testosterone levels.

Debre» writes, «A rate of high cholesterol is not the cause of myocardial infarction and stroke.»

«This study suggests that diet soda is not an optimal substitute for sugar - sweetened beverages, and may be associated with a greater risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, or vascular death than regular soda.»

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, estimated to account for 35 % of myocardial infarction and stroke, 49 % of heart failure, and 24 % of premature mortality (42).