Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 17, 2025

Among adults ages 18-49 (median age of 41 years) who were born with a hole in the upper chambers of their heart known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), strokes of unknown cause were more strongly associated with nontraditional risk factors, such as migraines, liver disease or cancer, rather than more typical factors such as high blood pressure.

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American Heart News - Stroke News

JANUARY 29, 2024

DALLAS, January 29, 2024 — A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association emphasizes the need to increase patients’ and physicians’ awareness of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) to improve the recognition of this condition and initiate.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Although stroke is highly preventable and treatable, there has been a rapid rise in the global stroke burden between 1990 and 2021, due to both population growth and the rise of aging populations worldwide, as well as a substantial increase in people's exposure to environmental and behavioral risk factors.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 18, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart attack and stroke among these patients, according to results from an international clinical trial led by a Mount Sinai researcher.

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Stroke Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

Stroke, Ahead of Print. Secondary stroke prevention encompasses many approaches, including antithrombotic therapy, risk factor management, and a healthy lifestyle. Recommendations are typically based on the results of randomized clinical trials that provide evidence of benefit.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JULY 22, 2024

A new study has identified new genetic and molecular risk factors that may reveal new pathways for treating patients after they experience their first stroke. The study identified CCL27 and TNFRSF14, two proteins that are associated with subsequent MACE, but not initial strokes.

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Circulation

JUNE 4, 2024

BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease and stroke are common and costly, and their prevalence is rising. to 3.8%), stroke (3.9% in 2020 to 61.0% Diabetes (16.3% to 26.8%) and obesity (43.1% to 60.6%) will increase, whereas hypercholesterolemia will decline (45.8% Prevalences of coronary disease (7.8% to 9.2%), heart failure (2.7%

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

People with conditions or habits such as high blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or smoking, not only have a higher risk of stroke, they may also have more severe strokes than people without these risk factors, according to a study published in the journal Neurology.

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Med Page Today

OCTOBER 21, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association updated guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke, emphasizing primary care screening, lifestyle management, and risk factor control. The guideline, published.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 19, 2024

An international study led by Monash University researchers has found a surprising connection between constipation and an increased risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including heart attacks, strokes and heart failure.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 26, 2024

Adults younger than 35 to 45 years old may have a higher risk of developing a stroke from nontraditional risk factors such as migraines than from traditional risks like high blood pressure. That's according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A trio of risk factors not only increase your risk of stroke, but they also raise the odds that such a stroke will be debilitating, a new study warns.

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Science Daily - Stroke

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia.

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Stroke Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

Stroke, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Recently, various polygenic risk score (PRS)based methods were developed to improve stroke prediction. However, current PRSs (including cross-ancestry PRS) poorly predict recurrent stroke. In addition, we analyzed its association stratified by risk factors.

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Stroke Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Stroke, Ahead of Print. The 2024 Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke, recently updated by the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, serve as an essential resource for clinicians aiming to reduce the growing impact of cerebrovascular disease.

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American Heart News - Heart News

MARCH 27, 2024

Research Highlights: People living in neighborhoods with more environmental adversities, including pollution, toxic sites, high traffic and few parks, had higher rates of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease risk factors. This association.

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American Heart News - Heart News

MARCH 6, 2025

Research Highlights: The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors varies greatly among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations, according to an analysis of electronic health records for more than.

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DAIC

JUNE 18, 2024

A projected rise in heart disease and stroke – along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity – is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 It is not surprising that an enormous increase in cardiovascular risk factors and diseases will produce a substantial economic burden."

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 17, 2025

Adults younger than 50 years of age had more than double the risk of having a stroke from migraine or other nontraditional stroke risk factors rather than traditional risks such as high blood pressure, according to research published in Stroke.

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Open Heart

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Patients with AF were older and more symptomatic, had higher body mass index, more prevalent cardiovascular risk factors, a history of sustained ventricular tachycardia and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), larger left atria (LA) and more advanced LV diastolic dysfunction (pp<0.001 for all).

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2024

Objective This study aimed to seek the risk factors and develop a predictive model for ischemic stroke (IS) in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) utilizing a Bayesian network (BN) approach. Two predictive models, logistic regression and BN, were used.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- The dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin (Inpefa) reduced the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and cardiovascular risk factors, a prespecified.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue 3 , Page 640-648, March 1, 2025. These divergent trends are at least partially attributable not only to diverging trends in stroke risk factors but may also be due to differences in the impact of stroke risk factors at different ages. versus 1.03;P=0.008).

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In middle-aged people, having risk factors like blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol that are not well-controlled combined with not following certain healthy habits including exercise, diet and sleep, are linked to a higher risk of stroke, dementia or depression later in life, according to a new study.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 3, 2025

BackgroundNon-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) significantly increases ischemic stroke and systemic embolism (SE) risks. Despite the proven efficacy of oral anticoagulants (OAC) in reducing these risks, their underutilization highlights a gap in clinical practice. for stroke/SE-specific, p-value<0.001).

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Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 12, 2024

Albuminuria is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmias, and microvascular disease. There are now several therapeutic agents that can lead to albuminuria lowering and a reduction in cardiovascular risk.

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Circulation

JUNE 4, 2024

The human capital approach was used to estimate productivity losses from morbidity and premature mortality due to cardiovascular conditions.RESULTS:One in 3 US adults received care for a cardiovascular risk factor or condition in 2020. Stroke is projected to account for the largest absolute increase in costs.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 31, 2025

A new drug may help protect millions of people from heart attacks and strokes by lowering a little-known risk factor in the blood.

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Stroke Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue 1 , Page 113-121, January 1, 2025. BACKGROUND:Physical activity is an effective modifiable behavior for preventing recurrent strokes. This study aims to determine the adherence to physical activity recommendations among stroke survivors in the United States. versus 62.3%;P&lt;0.0001). versus 67.9%;P&lt;0.0001];

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AHUP16-AHUP16, February 1, 2024. Introduction:Recent reports demonstrate that stroke prevalence is expanding in young women, especially in diverse populations. In the total population, 25% had an intracerebral hemorrhage, 56% had an ischemic stroke, and 19% had a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP254-ATP254, February 1, 2024. Introduction:Clinical characteristics of patients with in-hospital onset stroke (IHOS) compared to those with out-of-hospital onset stroke are reported to be late detection of stroke onset, less use of rt-PA, presence of atrial fibrillation, and poor outcome.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP325-ATP325, February 1, 2025. Strokes were self-reported and we exclude subjects who reported strokes at their first visit as well as those who did not report on their stroke status. Results:The cumulative incidence for strokes was 0.02 (87 out of 4692 subjects).

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Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 19, 2024

BackgroundAtrial fibrillation (AF) is known to be a strong risk factor for stroke. However, the risk of stroke recurrence in patients with cryptogenic stroke with AF detected after stroke by an insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) is not well known. The incidence of ischemic stroke recurrence was 4.0%

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 9, 2025

A new drug in clinical trials is showing promise in lowering a key genetic risk factor for heart attacks and strokessomething no existing treatment has been able to do.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP146-ATP146, February 1, 2025. Introduction:Differences in risk factors may contribute to disparities in stroke risk. The findings highlight the importance of addressing stroke risk factors among NHBA. vs. 45.9%, PR: 0.8)

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Stroke Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

Stroke, Ahead of Print. Linear and multivariate logistic regression assessed the association of Lp(a) with (1) self-reported stroke or TIA, (2) cerebral injury defined as self-reported stroke or TIA or evidence of a stroke on brain magnetic resonance imaging, (3) white matter hyperintensity volume, and (4) silent brain infarcts.

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