Sentences with phrase «suffered ischemic strokes»

All the patients had suffered ischemic strokes and undergone intravenous thrombolysis in Charing Cross Hospital.

People who were overweight were 22 percent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than normal weight people, while the risk for obese people was 64 percent higher, the researchers found.

Those with migraines were 2.3 times more likely than people without migraines to suffer ischemic stroke.

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Ischemic strokes account for about 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 strokes suffered annually in the United States.

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.

If their phase I clinical trial to test the safety and preliminary efficacy of this therapy gains approval, University of Pittsburgh researchers will test the therapy on 10 patients who suffer from chronic ischemic stroke — the most common form, in which clots block blood flow.

The investigators then compared just over 3,000 people who'd been hospitalized for an ischemic stroke during the week after a daylight saving transition with nearly 12,000 people who'd suffered a stroke in the two weeks before or after a transition week.

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.