Sentences with phrase «many minor strokes»

Richard Dawkins has had a minor stroke, and though he says he is recovering well he sounded frail on a recorded message he posted.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

Dawkins» later said he had been reinvited, but said that the controversy over the conference had caused stress ahead of his minor stroke earlier this year.

Former state Sen. Frank Padavan was his usual self at a Queens Village Republican Club dinner held in his honor Sunday after the political veteran suffered a minor stroke at his home late last month.

Lady Thatcher has suffered a number of health problems over the last few years, including a series of minor strokes which led her to cancel public speaking engagements.

Mayor Koch's personal secretary and his first deputy mayor will spend most of their time at Gracie Mansion this week as the seat of city government shifts several miles uptown during Mr. Koch's recuperation from a minor stroke.

Former state Sen. Frank Padavan has suffered a «very minor stroke,» according to Bill Coddington of Douglaston, a childhood friend who has visited him twice in the hospital since the incident.

Lead researcher Professor Peter Rothwell, a stroke expert from the University of Oxford, explained: «The risk of a major stroke is very high immediately after a TIA or a minor stroke (about 1000 times higher than the background rate), but only for a few days.

This finding has implications for doctors, who should give aspirin immediately if a TIA or minor stroke is suspected, rather than waiting for specialist assessment and investigations.»

Encouraging people to take aspirin if they think they may have had a TIA or minor stroke — experiencing sudden - onset unfamiliar neurological symptoms — could help to address this situation, particularly if urgent medical help is unavailable.»

«Immediate aspirin after mini-stroke substantially reduces risk of major stroke: Benefits of taking aspirin immediately after minor strokes have been underestimated.»

Professor Rothwell said: «Our findings confirm the effectiveness of urgent treatment after TIA and minor stroke — and show that aspirin is the most important component.

AFTER her minor stroke, BP started to feel as if her eyes were playing tricks on her.

In the aspirin - resistant group, the median stroke severity score was four, with scores ranging from three to 11, where scores from one to four indicate a minor stroke and scores from five to 15 indicate a moderate stroke.

However, in the weeks following a TIA or minor stroke, there is great risk that another clot will form, causing additional strokes — potentially major ones.

But in patients with TIAs and many minor strokes, the clot quickly goes away, usually in a few minutes, due to the natural mechanisms in the human body that are designed to deal with such clots.

About 10 to 20 percent of people who have a TIA or minor stroke go on to have a subsequent stroke within three months.

It was as if I had experienced a minor stroke... I could see the words clearly, but I felt like a first grader trying to sound each one out.

I'm sure it's down to the change of energy systems but was wondering whether this sounded out of place, or was anything to worry about as I'm a touch more sensitive than normal recently (5 months ago) had a minor stroke - which I fully recovered from within a couple of days - that the doctors have yet to find any causes for other than that it happened at the same time as a migraine.

He remained active until 2000, when a minor stroke brought his stage career to a close with a farewell concert in Palm Beach, FL..

They include Wilf (Billy Connolly), a man who a minor stroke has rendered uninhibitedly flirtatious; his friend Reggie (Tom Courtenay), a teacher of teens who sees similarities, after Internet research, between his brand of music and the kids» hip hop; and the friendly, spacey Cissy (Pauline Collins).

It was reported that Gilliam had been unable to appear in court due to a minor stroke, though the director has since clarified to the Guardian that it was a «perforated medullated artery,» calling it about as painful as a stubbed toe.

At the same time, hiring Shane Black to direct was a minor stroke of genius, the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang filmmaker reteaming with that film's star allowing Downey to breathe new life into a character that was on the verge of becoming stale.

The decision came days after he suffered a reported minor stroke.

Whilethe conundrum of Simpson's movie appearance was one purposely resolved by Franks and Roday, the writers had to work around an unforeseen obstacle: Omundson suffered a minor stroke in April of this year, just before he was set to begin working on the movie.

As artist David Hockney recovered from a minor stroke, he decided to paint portraits of his friends.

At age 17 he suffered a minor stroke that gave the family a scare, but once again, Buddy bounced back with no lingering effects.

Our elation in finding that our 15 year old, much loved pet can have the same sophisticated MRI procedure as our grandmother had following a minor stroke, quickly turns to despair when a bill of several hundred dollars for the diagnostic procedure alone is presented.

As Judy's health started improving and we all thought the regimen had kicked in, Judy startled everyone by having a minor stroke.

But exploring the giant map, collecting iconic MK items to solve simple puzzles, and fending off monsters (which attack you via heart - stopping QTE jump scares) is surprisingly fun, making this new Krypt a minor stroke of genius.

As artist David Hockney recovered from a minor stroke, he decided to paint portraits of his friends.

Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at high blood pressure and blood pressure variability in four groups of 2,000 people, each of who had minor strokes called transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), or «mini-strokes.»

On the other hand, 21 percent of those who suffered a stroke or transient ischemic attack, considered a minor stroke, had at least one parent with a stroke, and 8 percent had a brother or sister with a stroke.

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The night she died, she had had a stroke and lost a lot of blood from a very minor procedure (she was a bleeder, literally, a knife cut could kill her).

A minor scare would arise on the stroke of the interval.

It focuses on positioning, contra - indications and strokes to soothe common minor ailments of pregnancy.

Using aspirin urgently could substantially reduce the risk of major strokes in patients who have minor «warning» events, a group of European researchers has found.

In their next steps, the researchers are undertaking the VITAL 2.0 study to determine if the VIPS device can use complex machine learning algorithms to teach itself how to discriminate between minor and severe stroke without the help of neurologists.

The Chinese trial, called CHANCE (Clopidogrel in High - risk Patients with Acute Non-disabling Cerebrovascular Events), is nearly identical to a National Institutes of Health - sponsored trial that is already enrolling patients in the United States, including at UCSF, called POINT (Platelet - Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke).

Many strokes are minor — shorter in duration than a full - blown stroke and usually have no lingering health impacts.

The trial involved 5,170 people who were hospitalized after suffering minor ischemic strokes or stroke - like events known as transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, in which blood flow to the brain is briefly blocked.

In China, for instance, about 3 million new strokes occur every year, and about 30 percent of them are minor.

The reason for minor attacks is much the same as a full - blown stroke: a blood clot causes a blockage in the blood vessels that feed oxygen - rich blood to the brain.

Individuals who have advanced levels of HDL typically have a minor threat of heart disease, stroke, and many health glitches.

But though she's hardly able to dominate the project, director Martha Coolidge does manage to insert some of the sweetly eccentric characterization that distinguished her Valley Girl: one of the heroes, played by Gabe Jarret, is actually believable and sympathetic as a socially insecure adolescent, and a few of the minor figures are brought to life with deft, simple strokes.

Still, «Vera Drake» deserves high praise for the richness of its incidental details and the concise strokes with which its minor characters are drawn — whether it is the palpable discomfort in Stan's uncertainty as to whether he works «for» or «with» his more affluent brother, or the shy courtship of Reg and Ethel, or even the prosecution's repeated emphasis on the inclusion of a cheese - grater in Vera's abortion kit as though to suggest it were an instrument of torture (in fact she uses it to grate soap).

As my typing improves, I still can't get over seeing the damage to the left side of my brain in this MRI image following my carotid dissection and «minor» stroke.

And it was a British paper, I think, that said, «With one stroke of the pen, the president has determined that there are more important things in the world than the rest of the world,» basically, that the United States is more important and that there are other issue, that this is a minor thing.

We've all heard stories about someone who seemed outwardly okay except for a minor complaint, but then suddenly died of a heart attack or stroke or cancer.

Among these the risk of stroke within 30 days was 3 percent, including 26 minor and 34 disabling or fatal strokes, Halliday's team reported.