Tag: Heart / Stroke-Related: Stroke

Rate of incident AF over 12 months higher with implant versus usual care with external cardiac monitoring in patients with ischemic stroke

Recommendations include diagnostic workup to define stroke etiology to reduce risk for recurrent stroke

Health care providers should watch for unusual heart symptoms among young people who have just received the vaccine

With respect to a favorable functional outcome, no significant difference seen between endovascular therapy and medical therapy

Rates significantly lower among minorities, those with less education

Risk for stroke or systemic embolism reduced with versus without concomitant occlusion during an otherwise indicated cardiac surgery

Obesity, elevated blood pressure prevalent in younger Black women, even those in their 20s and 30s

Even without progression to diabetes, prediabetes linked to higher incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events

Hazard ratios for first ischemic stroke event increased for BMI in 50th to 84th percentile, overweight, obesity

Arm function improved for patients who had moderate-to-severe arm weakness at least nine months after ischemic stroke