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Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...ries and is responsible for most heart attacks and strokes when an atherosclerotic plaque ruptures. Pashkow ..., they reduce the risk of future heart attacks and strokes by about 30% over a one-year period. However, an appreciable segment of the population are 'resista...

People With Depression Could Be Prone to Stroke

... presence of depressive symptoms. A total of 144 strokes and 84 mini-strokes occurred during follow-up, the team reported in the medical journal Stroke. Among the subjects younger than 65 years, those with a CES-D score of 16 or higher were over four times more likely to have a stroke or mini stroke than...

Warfarin’s Anti-clotting Property May Cause Hemorrhagic Stroke

... has proved effective //by reducing the number of strokes due to clotting. However, its anti-clotting property has led to an increase in the number of strokes caused by bleeding to the brain particularly in patients over the age of 80, according to a new stud...

Differences Between BP Medicines and Newly-Diagnosed Diabetes Identified

...new-onset diabetes leads to as many heart attacks, strokes or death, as long-standing diabetes, which will require more studies. The authors’ data do suggest, however, that the differences between antihypertensive drugs regarding the risk for new-onset diabetes are real and significant. Whether an overweig...

Chain-Smokers can Kick the Habit –A ‘brainy’ Iea

... parts of the insula. Of the 50 patients who had strokes that did not disrupt the insula, 19 also gave up smoking, but only four did so instantly and without any cravings. The difference in the two groups’ experience of quitting suggests that the general stroke patients gave up in standard fashion becaus...

MRI Better Than CT for Diagnosing Strokes

...T scans used in emergency rooms spotted only 25%of strokes and hence have to be replaced by MRI scans which a...the scans. Experts could accurately diagnose acute strokes 83 percent of the time by observing the MRI scans, however while using the CT scans, they were only ...

Stroke Prevention Technique Improves Brain Function

...o the brain. One out of every 3 patients suffers strokes due to blocked carotid arteries. The treatment i...s who undergoes surgery or placement of stents for strokes is 4 to 10 percent. It is this risk, which holds back doctors from performing this procedure to im...

HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa

...along with Alzheimer’s// disease and dementia from strokes may be among the most common forms of dementia in the world. In the first study of HIV dementia on the African continent using rigorous neurological and neuropsychological tests, 31 percent of a small but presumably representative group of HIV-posi...

Shoppers Advised to Drop Foods Not Worth Their Salt

...can cause high blood pressure, which could trigger strokes and heart attacks. Professor MacGregor added: ‘If ...l save approximately 70,000 people from developing strokes and heart attacks each year, 35,000 of which are fatal.’ This move by the campaign is certainly wo...

Air Pollution May Cause Heart Disease

...uch bigger factor in deaths from heart ailments or strokes than has previously been recognised, reported an online edition of health magazine WebMD. Researchers followed 66,000 women - aged 50-79 - living in 36 cities. All the women were enrolled in an ongoing health study, the Women's Health Initiative. ...

A New Plan to Restrict Cardiovascular Diseases in Scotland

...cardiovascular complaints// like heart attacks and strokes in the next five years. The plan aims to provide preventive treatment to about 500,000 people considered to be at risk. The plan recommends periodical risk assessments for all over-40s especially those most at risk and also aims to provide lifest...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

... United States. More than 700,000 Americans suffer strokes annually. Stroke is the third leading cause of dea...an any other disease. Nearly three-quarters of all strokes occur in people over the age of 65 and the risk of having a stroke more than doubles each decade aft...

Early Switch to an Aromatase Inhibitor Increases Survival

...increased risk of death from other causes, such as strokes and endometrial cancer. Despite this risk, tamoxifen and another drug in this class, raloxifene, remain an extensively used and popular treatment. Aromatase inhibitors, such as aminoglutethimide and anastrozole, work in a different way to lower es...

High Cholesterol Increases Risk of Stroke in Otherwise Healthy Women

...ning of the study. According to researchers, 282 strokes occurred during the 11-year period, meaning nine out of every 10,000 women had a stroke each year. The study found a strong association between total cholesterol levels and later stroke. “Our findings show otherwise healthy women with high choleste...

Reset Your Biological Clock and Prevent Heart Attack!

... has been known for decades that heart attacks and strokes occur most frequently in the early-morning hours. Published online next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this report points to the novel possibility of modifying blood pressure and the early-morning risk of heart attack. ...

Beta-Blockers Should Not Be First Choice for High Blood Pressure

...ase in the risk of cardiovascular disease — mostly strokes — compared to those taking calcium channel blockers. Also, “patients who used beta-blockers were more likely to experience undesirable effects and abandon their antihypertension medications” compared to patients who took diuretics or RAS inhibitor...

Pigs Arrive at Bio-secure Center

...dly complications—from blindness to heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure." The project is bound to raise hopes for diabetics round the world. ANN ...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

...idelines had been followed, at least some of these strokes and TIAs would never have happened.” Even people who had previously been diagnosed with high cholesterol and those who were already taking cholesterol-lowering drugs were not at their ideal cholesterol level according to the guidelines. Thirty perc...

Too Much of Salt in Bread..

...y would equate to 7,000 lives saved each year from strokes and heart attacks due to the drop in blood pressure that would occur." The highest level was found in Morrison's The Best Farmhouse Malted Bread, which had a level of 1.5g per 100g or 0.7g per slice. The second highest salt reading was found in sev...

Good Oral Health Equals Good Health for Your Heart

...y ward off gum diseases and keep heart attacks and strokes at bay. And if you do have a gum infection, don’t ignore it, treating it may help open up arteries, and increase blood flow through them. You never know, you may then be warding off a stroke or heart attack. AN...

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