Frankel's BIOSIS research team is using blood samples from these same patients to continue learning more about the molecular biology of stroke to
predict risk of a stroke occurring in the future.
Not exact matches
GOOGLE»S AI HELPS TO
PREDICT CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS BY ANALYZING EYE SCANS: Google and Verily — Google - parent Alphabet's life sciences unit — are exploring new ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify patients»
risk of suffering from a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or
stroke, according to a newly published study by the two Alphabet subsidiaries.
To identify patients at
risk for DCI, Powers is studying the quantities
of micro-RNAs that are created in the hours and days after a hemorrhage to see if he can identify biomarkers that could help
predict the delayed
stroke.
ApoB backers point to recent analyses that found high apoB levels better
predicted patients» likelihood
of suffering a heart attack or
stroke and a genetic study that showed that reducing apoB had a bigger effect on cardiovascular
risk than did reducing LDL cholesterol.
«Although all states with high levels
of predicted 10 - year CVD
risk are in need
of interventions, the states with the highest
predicted risk need even more interventions to effectively reduce the disparities in CVD morbidity and mortality,» says Barbara A. Bowman, PhD, the director
of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and
Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, GA..
They developed country - specific
risk charts for
predicting individuals»
risk of cardiovascular disease, and country - specific assessments
of the 10 - year cardiovascular disease burden.They estimate that the proportion
of people at high
risk (10 % or higher)
of having a fatal heart attack or
stroke within 10 years is higher in low - and middle - income countries (eg, China and Mexico) compared with high - income countries (eg, South Korea, Spain, and Denmark).
Although football players had lower blood pressure in the pre-season than a control group
of undergraduates, stiffer arteries could potentially
predict playersâ $ ™ future high blood pressure, a
risk factor for
stroke and heart disease later in life.
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Tuesday reveals that three out
of four Americans have a
predicted heart age that's older than their real age, which means they are at a greater
risk for heart issues like attacks and
strokes.
Stroke risk: A group of over 90,000 women, ages 50 - 79, was tracked for 11 years to see how their diets predicted their stroke
Stroke risk: A group
of over 90,000 women, ages 50 - 79, was tracked for 11 years to see how their diets
predicted their
strokestroke risk.
The researchers also found that blood levels
of TMAO
predict heart attack,
stroke and death — independent
of other
risk factors.
Their review
of data from clinical trials including almost 267,000 participants showed an overall 12 percent reduction in
stroke incidence among those taking statins, with each 1 percent reduction in total cholesterol
predicting a 0.8 percent relative
risk reduction
of stroke.
Researchers noted that their findings would be helpful to doctors as a means
of predicting a patient's
risk of heart attack and
stroke.