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Design and Implementation of an Electronic Health Record?Integrated Hypertension Management Application

Journal of the American Heart Association

It is the leading risk factor for death and disability across the world. Unfortunately, over the past decade, hypertension control rates have decreased across the United States. Journal of the American Heart Association, Volume 13, Issue 2 , January 16, 2024.

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Abstract WP259: Headache and Hypertension and Early Postpartum State: A Proposed Clinical Triad for Maternal Stroke Risk Prediction

Stroke Journal

Controls were pregnant or PP but without any stroke and admitted for any reason, identified from a cohort of individuals with a high proportion of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), a known maternal stroke risk factor.

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Abstract TP271: A Retrospective Analysis of Demographic and Clinical Variables Within a Single Center Young Stroke Cohort

Stroke Journal

The most common stroke risk factors were tobacco use (44.6%), pre-existing cardiovascular disease (26.2%), and other substance use (23.8%). Within this study population, the median age was 43 years (IQR 38-47 years) and 235 (57.6%) were men.

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Abstract TP229: Stroke Rate and Associated Factors in Individuals With Primary Brain Gliomas and Brain Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Stroke Journal

We report on the stroke rate and associated factors following brain tumor diagnosis and radiation therapy.Design:This is a retrospective cohort study, from a single tertiary academic brain tumor center, of patients with brain gliomas diagnosed between 2004-2021 who received brain radiation therapy during their treatment.

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Incidence and Outcomes of Posterior Circulation Involvement in Moyamoya Disease

Stroke Journal

We describe clinical PCMMD characteristics in a large cohort of patients with MMD.METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed patients with MMD treated between 1991 and 2019 at a large academic medical center. Demographics, perioperative outcomes, and radiological phenotypes were recorded for 770 patients. at 1 year, 82.4% at 3 years, 68.8%

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“One + one” is rarely two in biology. The wronged mathematics of high risk pregnancy

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

Click on the image for the PDF of the article.Sharing here purely for the academic purpose with the courtesy and thanks to NEJM group. Hypertensive disorders in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy: insights from the ESC EORP PPCM Registry. The reference 70 & 71 is linked below 70.Jackson Jackson AM, Petrie MC, Frogoudaki A, et al.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6% The passage in its entirety for reference follows: Women commonly presented with chest pain symptoms similar to men but also had a greater prevalence of other symptoms such as palpitations, jaw and neck pain, as well as back pain.