Older people are prone to silent stroke risk. This 'minor stroke' can damage their brain and leading to major stroke in the future, including transient ischemic attack risk. However, those whose often doing moderate and intense exercises, this risk can be reduced. Since an established study said that stroke incidences occur in more ...

Lowering cholesterol levels doesn't mean reduce the risk of stroke, including myocardial infarction and atherosclerotic events, when the triglyceride levels not down. This suggestion based on the results of 33-year Danish study started in 1976-1978 involved 7579 women and 6372 men who enrolled in the Copenhage City Heart Study. All participants ...

The stroke risk not only for adults, but the children also may associated with the stroke risk. In general, the symptoms of stroke in children commonly attributed to migraine, seizures or encephalitis. However, for specific symptoms and signs of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke are similar in adults. According to current findings that ...

Many people asked, is red meat bad for them? how often should I eat red meat? or how does red meat affect the body remain complicated answering due to benefits and side effects they have, instead the proportion should be taken. Common red meat nutrition facts mostly contain saturated fat and ...

Although the finding had small of absolute effects, but, based on current meta-analysis, the researchers found vitamin E supplementation increased the risk of hemorrhagic stroke by 22% and decreased risk of ischemic stroke by 10%. According to first author of thes sudy, Markus Schurks, MD, MSc, from the Division of Preventive ...

Due to reducing the bleeding risk of upper gastrointestinal, combination of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) with clopidogrel and aspirin often given to the patients. In the clinical studies, dual use of PPIs and clopidogrel in selecting populations showed associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is one of favorite medical treatment for surgically menopausal, perimenopausal and to a lesser extent postmenopausal women. However, since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial report in 2002 that found HRT also increased the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, strokes, pulmonary emboli, and one ...

Although considerably low, however people who had migraine with aura (a perceptual disturbance experienced before a migraine headache) should be careful cause recent findings said that it increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and hemorrhagic stroke. Published in August 25, 2010 in the BMJ, according to the authors of the ...

According to the researcher, heavy binge drinkers was defined as having 6 or more alcoholic drinks on 1 occasion. From their recent study among heavy binge drinkers who have high blood pressure, the researcher found the risk of death by 12-fold. The study using the Cox proportional hazard model among 6100 ...

In the recent study among more than 5,000 people in Sardinia, Italy, US scientists found that antagonistic people, particularly those who are competitive and aggressive, could be increasing their risk of MI or stroke. Published in August 16, 2010, in Hypertension, the authors, Angelina R Sutin from National Institute on Aging, ...

An autosomal recessive degenerative disorder that characterized by ataxia, sensory loss, areflexia, scoliosis, weakness, and cardiomyopathy, also known as Friedreich's ataxia. According to David R. Lynch, MD, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, nearly cases of disorder caused by a GAA-repeat expansion of the gene encoding the mitochondrial ...

More than 35,000 participants participated in EPIC-NL, a Dutch portion of the EPIC study. The researcher look at the effects of tea and coffee consumption on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In that study, the investigators found and suggests that moderate intake of either reduces coronary heart disease, especially of tea may reduce ...

Recent study showed that early identification of prehypertension and prediabetes is important due to cardiovascular risk, therefore lifestyle changing urge to do. It was estimated that 1 in 10 of US population have prediabetes and prehypertension which often have other risk factors too, and therefore are at greatly increase risk for ...

In the latest May issued of Stroke, researcher believed that intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), G241R genotype, is associated with an increased risk of incident ischemic stroke. Lead author, Dr. Kelly A. Volcik from the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, and colleagues, believe it may involve binding to macrophage antigen-1 ...

A new study found that after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with anemia could increase the risk of bleeding and death. In the study also found that those mortality impact is greater in men. Reported in the American Journal of Cardiology on April 5, 2010, ...

Natural remedies provided here is related to cardiovascular disease and accident such as stroke both as a treatment or prevention. As stroke occurrence when the blood vessel that carried vital oxygen and nutrients to the brain, and blocked cause by some rupture in blood vessels or clot occurrence. Therefore maintaining and improves ...

Some specific type of shingles that characterized by the pain from the skin rash with blister which had several symptoms such as fever, headache, feeling discomfort, sensation of burning, sensation of tingling, numbness, excessive sensitivity, could affect ...

High intensive physical therapy for Stroke patients or even chronic, could improve motor function and quality of life. This result presented by latest study by principal investigator, Alber Lo, MD, PhD, at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Brown ...

The researcher from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Virginia Howards says that about 2.5-fold risk of stroke more likely to blacks than whites including other race in young and middle-aged adults (the age of 45 to 54 years) including after Latest study also showed that stroke among blacks more deadly. The ...

People get stroke commonly caused by 2 factors which are by interruption of blood supply to any parts of the brain and a rupture of blood vessel. Those conditions may came from the patients who have high blood pressure, diabetes, smoker, alcohol and drug abuse. Other underappreciated factors for the risk of ...

History of stroke incidence previously is common among patients who is getting older. However, as many obesity cases among children until adolescent and incidence of diabetes among young adults right now, this may impact illness related to stroke occur in younger adults, even no data showed this correlation....