Fewer Strokes When Elderly Patients Take Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
September 9, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Elderly Care, Neurology, Prevention, Stroke
By 2010, an estimated 20% of the United States population will be 65 years old or older. It’s this same age group that experiences the highest number of heart attacks and strokes but cholesterol-lowering drugs, which stave off these events, aren’t prescribed as often for people in this age bracket as they are for younger patients. Researchers at Wayne State University have just published their research findings that indicate these drugs are just as beneficial for older patients as they are for younger ones. Read more
Dream of the Future: Chocolate as Brain Food
August 19, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Diet, Medical Research, Neurology, Prevention, Stroke
As if chocolate lovers needed yet another reason to indulge guilt free, researchers from Harvard University and Mars, Incorporated, have released their findings that a naturally occurring substance in cocoa can actually bring long-term improvements to the flow of blood to the brain in ways that may have the potential of easing the damage of a stroke or slowing the progression of dementia. Currently, one in seven older Americans is battling age-related dementia. Read more
Young Woman’s Every Cigarette Counts When Tallying Stroke Risk
August 16, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Medical Research, Neurology, Smoking, Stroke, Women's Health
While the evidence is unavoidably clear that smoking cigarettes increases a person’s risk of having a stroke, there is relatively little data that identifies the dosage amount that places a smoker in the danger zone. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have just announced the results of their study which quantified smoking habits with risk of stroke in young women between the ages of 15 and 49. Read more
Eat Fish Often for Mental Clarity in Senior Years
August 11, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Diet, Elderly Care, Lifestyle, Medical Research, Memory, Neurology, Prevention
Researchers in Finland have just published their findings on a study that compared a diet rich in fish to a diet with little, if any, fish and discovered that the fishy diet eaters reduced their risk of stroke, with their rate of risk diminished where fish consumption was highest. As long as the fish wasn’t fried, anyway. Read more
STRokE DOC Puts Experts at the Scene
August 9, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under MedTech, Neurology, Stroke
One out of every three US residents lives in a rural area that makes getting immediate medical care in times of emergency a sometimes-risky predicament. Speed of emergency medical care is especially important with medical emergencies such as stroke, a situation that benefits most from the earliest treatment. Read more
Kids’ Quality Sleep May Prevent Obesity, Diabetes
August 5, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Adolescents, Children's Health, Diabetes, Diet, Medical Research, Neurology, Obesity, Prevention, Psychiatry, Sleep
According to recently released information, the soaring rate of obesity in 6- to 11-year-old American children has tripled in just 30 years. Alongside that dangerous rise in weight that threatens our nation’s children, a growing number of these children also suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. The newly released study has found an important link between a child’s weight and his or her ability to get a good night’s rest. Read more
Life With a Partner Minimizes Alzheimer’s Risk
August 2, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Alzheimer's Disease, Lifestyle, Medical Research, Neurology
Men and women living with a partner in mid-life are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of age-related dementia, according to researchers presenting their study to colleagues at the 2008 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, the largest conference based on the disease in the world. The conference is being held in Chicago this year. Read more
Statins Stave Off Dementia in High-Risk Group
July 30, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Alzheimer's Disease, Drugs, Medical Research, Neurology, Prevention, dementia
Some medical situations increase the risk of developing dementia as we age but a University of Michigan (UM) study has proven that individuals taking the statin class of drugs to reduce “bad” cholesterol levels did not develop dementia as expected. In fact, they were only about half as likely to develop dementia than study participants who had not taken statins. Read more
Strokes in Children Not the Same as in Adults
July 21, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under AHA, Children's Health, Medical Research, Neurology, Stroke
For the first time ever, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have issued guidelines for dealing with strokes in infants and children, an event once thought so rare that such guidelines were not warranted. New diagnostic tools and in-depth studies of the children who experience strokes, however, reveal the event is still uncommon but not so rare that similarities and specific characteristics cannot be documented. And one very important factor in children’s strokes is that they are quite different from the strokes adults suffer; so different, in fact, that treatment and prevention measures are most effective when handled in an age-appropriate manner. Read more
Older Women’s Sleep Patterns Influence Risk of Stroke
July 19, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Lifestyle, Medical Research, Neurology, Sleep, Stroke, Women's Health
When all other risk factors are relatively equal, postmenopausal women who sleep between seven and eight hours each night are less likely to experience an ischemic attack, or stroke, than women of the same age group who sleep less than seven hours. And women of this age group who sleep nine hours or more each night are at an even greater risk of experiencing a stroke than women who sleep less, according to the report of a study that has just been published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Read more





