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Rare Genetic Disorder Could Cause Strokes In Young People

...re genetic disorder may be responsible for causing strokes in young people, though the condition's progress c...ning of over 700 adults suffering from unexplained strokes to find out whether they had Fabry disease. They found that four percent of the studied people, ag...

High Doses Of Common Pain killers Can Double The Chances Of Heart attack

... had also shown that the risk of heart attacks and strokes were greatly increased with other NSAIDs but clear results have not yet emerged. The researchers from Oxford University found that, in patients taking COX-2s, the odds of a heart attack or stroke increased by 42% compared with placebo. They found tha...

Survival Rates of Heart Attack Improving

...ng admitted to hospital for both heart attacks and strokes has declined with a fall of 19 per cent between 19...4-2005for heart attacks while hospitalizations for strokes fell by about 23 per cent. ‘It is encouraging to see that the odds of surviving a heart attack are...

Women More Likely To Die Of Heart Attack And Stroke Than Men

... that women are at an increased risk of dying from strokes as well. 'Now is the first time we know there's a difference. Now we have to go ask the question why might this be?' said Jennifer Zelmer, vice president of research and analysis for the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The report title...

Studies Show Combination Drugs As A Poor Substitute For Anti-Coagulants In Stroke

... drug might be a better alternative for preventing strokes //in people with the abnormal heart rhythm called ...oagulant, is effective for preventing clotting and strokes in patients, but is was very hard to manage. Dr. Stuart Connelly, director of the division of cardio...

Increased Rates of Heart Problems Due To Fear of losing one's Job

...f which 582 people suffered from heart attacks and strokes in about 10 years time period as they were forced out of a job. The researcher said that stress was the main culprit. Dr William Gallo said that people want to settle peacefully in their later part of life but losing one’s job induces a lot of stre...

Radio Therapy To Cure Irregular Heart Beats

...id atrial fibrillation leads to complications like strokes and disabling symptoms. 'Dosages of Warfarin from six months to one year will reduce the risk factor by 60 per cent,' he added. (Source:PTI News)...

Neurologists Call For National Stroke Prevention Policy

...r mass screening to identify people prone to brain strokes and urged the Centre to develop a national stroke ...he medicos also sought to bust popular myths about strokes -- widely and wrongly believed to be related to the heart and not the brain. "Unlike heart attacks...

Beta-Blockers Should Be the Second Line of Treatment

...s shows that hypertension results in about 125,000 strokes and heart attacks every year. Prof Graham MacGregor, the chairman of the Blood Pressure Association, said that treatment of high blood pressure is therefore essential a sit would save the lives of millions of people in UK. Conventional use of Beta...

Older Adults could be Benefited from Chinese Martial-Arts

...d a woman noted that she had reduced the number of strokes required to swim across the pool – from 20 to between 11 and 14. Another said she was more confident of her ability to climb the stairs to her attic. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Karl Rosengren was Yang's Ph.D. adviser and is a contributing author ...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

... ever to find and fix the problems that cause many strokes — before a stroke ever happens. And they can do it...are all emerging as potential tools for preventing strokes or reducing the devastating disability and high risk of death that they pose. Still, the doctors s...

Spanish Initiative Looks At Inflammatory Markers To Predict Strokes

...that can contribute to patients suffering from new strokes or other vascular events such as heart attack. In fact, those who have chronic mouth infections or inflammatory processes have a greater risk of repeating these illnesses", explains doctor José Castillo, coordinator of the MíTICO project. A second o...

Following A Healthy Lifestyle Can Avert Stroke

...sumption as well as a good balanced diet can avert strokes in women, a new study has found. The study started...res between 17 to 20 had a lower risk of suffering strokes as compared to women who had low-end scores. "Our findings show the importance of healthy behavior...

Dieting During Pregnancy may Harm Baby

... and may as a result suffer from heart attacks and strokes later in life. The findings were also true regardless of social class, smoking or exercise habits, weight or sickness during pregnancy. Though experts usually recommend that a pregnant woman needs to eat around 2,500 calories a day, the research...

New Arthritis Drug Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attacks

...e linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes and arthritis sufferers have been warned to exercise caution in its use.// The federal government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) will make the drug Prexige (generic name, lumiracoxib) available from Tuesday. The drug is the first COX-2 inhi...

Therapy Decided by Risk Factors

...roke,” he said. “About 15 percent to 20 percent of strokes occur in people with AF, and those strokes are especially large and disabling. “Incorporating existing recommendations on anti-clotting thera...

Sleep Apnea Doubles Stroke Risk In Elderly

.... None of them participating in the study had had strokes at the start of the study. They monitored the patients’ overnight breathing patterns over a period of 6 years and found that 20 of the participants had stroke. The found that patients with severe sleep apnea had a 2.5-fold increased risk of stroke,...

Recurrent Stroke Risk is Minimized by Statin

... cholesterol-lowering drug, can reduce the risk of strokes in patients who have had a recent stroke or a tran...he placebo, reduced the risk of fatal and nonfatal strokes by 16 percent. This overall reduction in the risk of stroke was present despite a small increase in...

Scientist Discovers Crucial Part of Blood-Clotting Process

...et clots where you don’t want them and end up with strokes and heart attacks,” Dr. Neuenschwander said. “It... possible to make synthetic chemicals that prevent strokes and heart attacks, Dr. Neuenschwander said. Conversely, you could make synthetic activators that cou...

Stroke Risk Greatest At Early Morning And Early Evening

...f Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry says that strokes are more likely to occur during //two peak periods...nese researchers who conducted the study said that strokes appeared to occur more frequently between 6am and 8am and 6pm and 8pm. The researchers examined 12,...

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