Tag: Heart / Stroke-Related: Stroke

Shorter leukocyte telomere length linked to higher incidence rates of stroke, dementia, late-life depression as composite and individually

Patients who start attending services a year or more after stroke less likely to recover from symptoms of depression, anxiety

Risk for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events lower compared with aspirin monotherapy for patients who undergo PCI and discontinue DAPT

Absolute number of subarachnoid hemorrhage cases increased, but age-standardized burden rates decreased between 1990 and 2021

Longer sleep duration linked to presence of cerebral microbleeds; longer in-bed time linked to lower total MoCA score

Higher functional independence seen at 90 days for patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion who present within 4.5 hours

Addition of revascularization to optimized medical therapy not beneficial in patients with carotid stenosis ≥50 percent and low or intermediate predicted stroke risk

In a recent study, one-year MACE incidences were 1.79, 2.58, and 4.03 per 100 patient-years for early, late, and no ezetimibe added to statins

One-year stroke risk was 0.7 and 1.8 percent for patients with CHA2DS2-VA scores of 1 to 4 and 5 to 8

Most pronounced increases seen in nonmetropolitan areas; proportion of deaths at home has increased