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Blocking Brain Protein Helps Ease Brain Injury After Stroke

Madison, Wisconsin - Experiments on small mammals show that blocking a protein helped ease the damage caused when an ischemic stroke temporarily cuts off blood and oxygen to the brain.

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Measuring damage to brain networks may aid stroke treatment, predict recovery

Functional MRI scans provide crucial data for stroke patients

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Pre-stroke risk factors influence long-term future stroke, dementia risk

•If you had heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, before your first stoke, your risk of suffering subsequent strokes and dementia long after your initial stroke may be higher....

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Blood Coagulation Detector May Help in Monitoring Stroke Risk

Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) show that an analyzer recently developed to measure blood coagulability has the sensitivity to detect hypercoagulatibility associated with...

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Stroke is largely preventable, with hypertension confirmed as biggest risk...

Ten potentially modifiable risk factors account for 90% of strokes worldwide, but regional variation should be considered, says a new global collaborative study published in the Lancet and co-authored...

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Strathclyde mathematician wins prize for research into speeding up stroke...

A mathematician at the University of Strathclyde has shared in a prestigious prize for research into methods for accelerating the diagnosis of strokes.

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GP records indicate long term effects on patients of 'mini-strokes'

‘Mini-strokes’, also known as transient ischemic attacks (TIA), affect 510,000 patients in the UK.

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New procedure to prevent stroke offered at UI Health

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System is offering a new procedure that helps prevent stroke and significantly improves quality of life for patients with atrial fibrillation...

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Knowing all the signs of stroke could save a life

Strokes claim the lives of around 1,000 people in Northern Ireland every year. It is the third most common cause of death and the greatest cause of adult disability, so the Public Health Agency (PHA)...

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Anemic adults may have a higher risk of death after stroke

•Anemic adults may have a higher risk of death after stroke. •Hemoglobin levels may also influence stroke deaths. •Researchers suggest increased awareness and interventions are needed for stroke...

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