Basking too long in a sauna may put bathers at risk of heat stroke, particularly if they haven't drunk enough water ...

2, 2024 — Eating a diet with a higher ratio ... hormone treatments for menopausal symptoms on the risk of blood clots, stroke and heart attack. The study, which involved around one million ...

Sleep-disordered breathing improvements were not associated with functional, cognitive, or neurologic outcomes in the first ...

OR's for poor functional outcome on modified Rankin Score (mRS>2) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL<8) and cognitive performance were calculated using logistic regression analysis.

In 693 patients with a median follow-up of 796 days, the authors observed 16 deaths, 32 patients with end point 2, and 83 patients with end point 3; Hs-cTnT provides excellent risk stratification on ...

Houston, MO—Texas County Memorial Hospital’s education director and stroke coordinator, Jason Mayberry, was awarded the ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...

and diastolic blood pressure −2.58 mm Hg (95% CI −4.7 to −0.46) compared with control. Reduction in SBP was most pronounced among studies initiating exercise within 6 months of stroke or TIA (−8.46 mm ...

An acute stroke, like most forms of stroke, starts suddenly and worsens rapidly. Some strokes may be preceded by a transient ischemic attack (TIA), a temporary stroke that resolves before causing any ...

The Framingham study calculated lifetime risk of stroke among middle age men and women and found that the lifetime risk in women age 55 was 21% and in men age 55, 17%. [2] This may be attributed ...

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Among patients with stroke, fever burden was reduced by an automated surface temperature management device; functional ...