TUESDAY, February 14, 2012 (Health.com) — A brief uptick in traffic-related air pollution may be enough to increase a person’s short-term risk of stroke, new research suggests.
An analysis of 10 years of data from a major Boston stroke center has found that strokes are more likely to occur immediately following 24-hour periods in which air quality drops into the range the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers “moderate.” Read More
WEDNESDAY, September 28, 2011 (Health.com) — Many more Americans may be at risk of having a stroke than previously thought.
Doctors have long known that high blood pressure, or hypertension, is among the most important risk factors for stroke. Now a new study has found that middle-aged people with blood pressure that’s only slightly above normal—a condition known as prehypertension—are 68% more likely to have a stroke than those with normal blood pressure. Read More
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — After suffering a stroke, patients who talk with a therapist about their hopes and fears about the future are less depressed and live longer than patients who don’t, British researchers say.
In fact, 48 percent of the people who participated in these motivational interviews within the first month after a stroke were not depressed a year later, compared to 37.7 of the patients who were not involved in talk therapy.
By Ellin Holohan
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) — Adding olive oil to your diet may reduce your risk of stroke, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that older people who used olive oil intensively — meaning they regularly cooked with it and used it in salad dressing — were 41 percent less likely to have a stroke than those who rarely consumed it.
WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2011 (Health.com) — Small strokes that cause no outward symptoms yet have potentially serious long-term consequences may be kept at bay by vigorous exercise such as jogging and cycling, a new study in the journal Neurology suggests.
Walking and other light exercise, by contrast, appears to offer no protection against these so-called silent strokes, which cause small brain lesions and have been linked to an increased risk of falling, memory problems, dementia, and full-blown strokes. Read More
By Denise Mann
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) — Use of a life-saving clot-busting drug to treat ischemic strokes nearly doubled from 2005 through 2009, but the rates still remain too low, a new study finds.
Acute ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot cuts off blood supply to the brain. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is the only thrombolytic (clot-dissolving) drug approved to treat this type of stroke in the United States, and it can stave off death and lasting disability, but only if it is administered within 3 to 4.5 hours of stroke onset.
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Home-based exercise managed by a physical therapist is just as effective at restoring stroke patients’ walking ability as a formal rehabilitation program using a specialized treadmill, a new study indicates.
The results also defy conventional wisdom that stroke recovery peaks at six months, demonstrating that patients who began rehabilitation even six months after their stroke continued to improve their walking for up to a year.
WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — A new drug that had shown promise in animal testing is not better than aspirin in preventing a second stoke in someone who’s already had one, a new study has found.
In fact, researchers stopped the study early because the drug, terutroban, showed no extra benefit.
THURSDAY, May 5, 2011 (Health.com) — Having sex, drinking coffee, working out—these and other everyday activities that cause blood pressure to spike may briefly raise the risk of a burst aneurysm in the brains of certain vulnerable people, a new study suggests.
Roughly 2% of the population is believed to have an aneurysm, a balloon-like swelling in a brain artery that results from a weak spot in the artery wall. Aneurysms are usually too small to cause symptoms or problems, but if they grow large they can burst and cause a stroke, leading to permanent brain damage or death. Read More
TUESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) — Regular walking significantly reduces stroke risk in women, researchers say.
In a new study that looked at data from 39,315 U.S. female health professionals, average age 54, participating in the Women’s Health Study, 473 of the women had an ischemic (clot-related) stroke and 102 had a hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke during 11.9 years of follow-up. Those who were most active in their leisure time were 17 percent less likely to have any type of stroke than those who were least active. Read More
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