Sentences with phrase «with mild stroke»

Follow - up with stroke victims revealed that 46 percent of those with a mild stroke said they were working slower, 42 percent said they were not able to do their job as well, 31 percent said they were not able to stay organized and 52 percent said they had problems concentrating.

A study called Stroke Warning Information and Faster Treatment (SWIFT) compared interactive intervention with enhanced educational materials on recurrent stroke arrival times in patients with mild stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).

Not exact matches

He had been a college instructor in sociology, psychology and community relations, but in 1981, while working as a community relations specialist with the San Jose Police Department, he suffered a mild stroke.

Also, the study participants had milder strokes on average than people with stroke overall and the average age of participants was 62, which is lower than the average age of 69 for people with stroke overall.

«We were surprised at the importance of taking into account RLS severity — it was only severe RLS, not milder RLS, that was associated with increased risk of stroke,» said principal investigator and senior author Xiang Gao, associate professor and Director, Nutritional Epidemiology Lab, department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa..

Compared to the neurologists» diagnoses, the device displayed 92 percent specificity — the ability to detect the difference between patients with severe stroke and those with other conditions such as mild stroke or healthy participants with no brain pathology.

Patients with this mutation are not at all homogeneous in their clinical presentations: some develop principally painful crises with or without bony infarcts; others are prone to hemolytic crises; some develop vasoocclusive crises, including stroke; still others develop acute chest syndrome; while many are phenotypically normal, except for mild anemia.

The serious nature of the problem was captured in a landmark study which found that middle - age and older men with even mild levels of OSA were in danger of increased risk of stroke and death.

Studies show that supplementation with B - complex vitamins reduces damage after strokes, while reducing brain shrinkage in subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

With so much torque on - tap it makes effortless progress, be it on the motorway, where a mild squeeze of the throttle in 6th gear brings a satisfying shove of acceleration, or on a fast A or B road, where you can make swift progress by smoothly stroking along in the higher gears.

Between strokes, dip the flea comb into a cup of water with mild detergent.

Between strokes, dip the comb into a cup of water with mild detergent to kill the fleas left on the comb.

I dodged a personal catastrophe when the lining of my left carotid artery gave way on 1 July and I ended up with a (thankfully mild) stroke.

Chris has helped clients with medical issues ranging from mild conditions, such as high blood pressure & high cholesterol, to diabetes or history of stroke, heart attack, or cancer, including tough cases like gettting life insurance for 70 to 75 year olds.

About 71 percent of patients who had a mild to moderate stroke were discharged directly home, discharged with home services only, or discharged with outpatient services only.

The prevalence of depression in chronic medical conditions is as follows: asthma (27 %), 9 atopic dermatitis (5 %), 10 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (24.6 %), 11 gouty arthritis (20 %), 12 rheumatoid arthritis (15 %), 13 systemic lupus erythematosus (22 %) 12 and stroke (30 %).14 Ismail et al conducted a meta - analysis of 57 studies and showed that the overall pooled prevalence of depression in patients with mild cognitive impairment was 32 %.4 Estimates of the prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms vary substantially between published studies, particularly with respect to specialty, patient age and residence.