Sentences with phrase «of large stroke»

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.

The research is one of the largest stroke studies conducted in the UK and over half of all hospitals admitting stroke patients in England took part.

Not exact matches

A large 2014 study of more than 25,000 people with heart disease found that putting people on long - acting doses of vitamin B3 to raise their levels of «good,» or HDL, cholesterol didn't reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, or deaths.

Mr. Rossi also served as CEO of Heart and Stroke Foundation — one of Canada's largest non-profit organizations — overseeing consecutive years of record fundraising combining for over $ 500 million in total and launching many new, life - saving initiatives.

Perhaps I'm over-thinking it, but coupled with CircleUp, I believe we're seeing the first strokes of a much larger picture being painted.

Hartshorne himself writes with large strokes, with sweeping insight - his concern is to state his vision of God and then to look outward to other traditions and show the superiority of his own conception of God to alternative conceptions.

Many old people get dementia, alzheimer's, strokes that destroy large chunks of the brain and stuff like that.

The argument points to the fact that, to a large extent, the council of elders as well as the disciplinary committee seemed to have slacked and has become bereft of the urgency to deal with errant elements in much proportionate and the same way it dealt expeditiously just upon the stroke of a petition.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

«Although the venom is diluted in the much larger blood volume of a human and do not cause stroke, bite victims can still die from internal bleeding.»

Conventional risk factors largely explain the links observed between loneliness / social isolation and first time heart disease / stroke, finds the largest study of its kind published online in the journal Heart.

That analysis of published large randomized trials calculated that each 77 - point drop in LDL cholesterol (a 2 millimole per liter drop) reduced the risk of a major cardiovascular event — heart attack, stroke or the need for a coronary - clearing procedure — by 45 percent.

However, the researchers say the findings are consistent with a large number of studies linking road traffic noise and hypertension, which is a leading cause of stroke.

The technology allowed them to identify large disruptions to brain communication that occurred as a result of stroke.

He points out that the largest trials of antihypertensive therapy and statins for people in this age group have shown only a marginal reduction in stroke and very modest reductions in other cardiovascular events.

Only if the timing, dosage and kind of rehabilitation are right can motor functions make an almost full recovery after a large stroke.

This large study contributes to the understanding of longer - term stroke risks in cardiac surgery patients.

Large amounts of sodium stored in the skin, especially in older individuals, can lead to high blood pressure and increase the risk for heart disease and stroke.

Unlike the developed nations» larger but much more efficient automobiles, which use four - stroke engines, two - stroke vehicles spew great volumes of dangerous hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and smoke.

Given their different physiology and risk factors, we have conducted the first large prospective study on the association of fruit with subtypes of stroke in Chinese adults from both rural and urban areas.»

Today, five million rickshaws ply India's streets with roughly 80 percent of these iconic open - air taxis still boasting two - stroke engines in midsize cities such as Pune, Rajkot and Surat; many of the rest either run on two - stroke compressed natural gas (CNG) engines or the larger and cleaner - burning four - stroke gasoline or CNG engines.

A large study of 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada, sought to identify risk factors for long - term stroke after surgery to improve outcomes for patients.

Patients with the largest blockages and most devastating strokes are deriving the greatest benefits, said Loyola neurosurgeon Joseph C. Serrone, MD, one of the co-authors of the paper.

From the largest visible swaths of paint to the tiniest strokes, Van Gogh's brushwork seems instinctually guided to simulate river eddies and cloud rotations.

In many other countries, however, the CVD burden dwarfs that of cancer, and a large proportion of the populations will lose their lives prematurely to heart disease and stroke.»

When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from tiny brush strokes.

Its long - term monitoring of a large group, or cohort, of people in a Massachusetts town has yielded landmark results on everything from the link between cholesterol and heart disease to the genetic risk of stroke.

Drinking large quantities of alcohol more than twice a week increased the risk of stroke mortality in men.

«We have shown that a large proportion of the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke comes from smoking only a couple of cigarettes each day,» say the authors.

To investigate this potential link, a team led by Rakhi Naik, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University) and Marguerite Irvin, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) analyzed data from a large population - based study, the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

Lloyd - Jones's editorial is based on a large new study published in the journal that looked at adults, ages 50 to 80, with cardiovascular disease who took extended - release niacin (vitamin B3) and laropiprant (a drug that reduces face flushing caused by high doses of niacin) to see if it reduced heart attack and stroke compared to a placebo over four years.

The benefits of treating serious strokes with clot removal were shown in 2015, when five separate studies analyzing a total of 1,287 patients showed that severe stroke patients — usually with clots involving the largest blood vessels in the brain — who received both the clot - snatching procedure and the medicine did significantly better than those who got medicine alone.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

«We tried to untangle the large role aging appears to play in some of the most devastating neurological disorders,» said Edward Giniger, Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the senior author of the study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.

In the trial, patients were evaluated at treatment centers between six and 16 hours after incurring strokes originating in either of two large arteries in the brain: the middle cerebral artery or the internal carotid artery, which together account for about 25 percent of all strokes and the majority of severely disabling strokes.

The study also found that in people with aspirin resistance the actual size of stroke appears larger.

The people who were aspirin resistant also had larger areas of the brain affected by the stroke, as measured by MRI diffusion weighted imaging, with infarct size of 2.8 cc compared to 1.6 cc for those who responded to aspirin.

The article emphasizes that serious medical consequences, such as paranoia and hypertension leading to stroke, are rare and only result from sustained ingestion of very large doses.

A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large - vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92 percent accuracy, report clinical investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Mount Sinai, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and elsewhere in an article published online on March 6, 2018, in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.

«Compared to mice, our large animal stroke model is a more rigorous test of potential therapeutics with findings that are likely more clinically relevant,» said Franklin West, an associate professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and senior author of the paper describing the model.

It is the fourth - largest cause of death in the UK, and half of all stroke survivors have a disability.

Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

To help scientists take advantage of this untapped wealth of data from hospital scans, a team of MIT researchers, working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and many other institutions, has devised a way to boost the quality of these scans so they can be used for large - scale studies of how strokes affect different people and how they respond to treatment.

«New technique makes brain scans better: Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large - scale studies of stroke outcome.»

In the United States, stroke is the largest single cause of neurologic disability, accounting for about 800,000 new cases each year — more than one per minute — and exacting an annual tab of about $ 75 billion in medical costs and lost productivity.

For patients who have experienced a large stroke that cuts off blood supply to a large part of the brain, the use of standardized medical management protocol and surgery to decompress swelling can improve life expectancy, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a recent study.

The drug will be given to a larger group of people to confirm its effectiveness and compare it to commonly used stroke treatments.

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.

The current study combines data from five clinical trials involving a total of 1,287 people, including the SWIFT PRIME trial led by Saver, that show these devices improved outcomes for people with acute ischemic strokes due to large vessel blockage.

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