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April 18, 2024

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Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Death After Giving Birth

Apr. 11, 2024 — Health researchers identify patients at risk for preventable death in the year after ...

More Than Half a Million Global Stroke Deaths May Be Tied to Climate Change

Apr. 10, 2024 — A changing climate may be linked to growing death and disability from stroke in regions around the world, according to a new study. Researchers found over three decades that non-optimal temperatures, those above or below temperatures associated with ...

Life Expectancy Increased as World Addressed Major Killers Including Diarrhea, Lower Respiratory Infections, and Stroke

Apr. 3, 2024 — Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990, according to a new study. Over the past three decades, reductions in death from leading killers fueled this progress, including diarrhea and ...

Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?

Mar. 27, 2024 — Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as going from light to moderate activity, was ...

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Scientists Grow 'Mini Kidneys,' Revealing New Insights Into Metabolic Defects and Potential Therapy for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Apr. 8, 2024 — Scientists have successfully grown 'mini kidneys' in the lab and grafted them into live mice, revealing new insights into the metabolic defects and a ...

Virtual Rehabilitation Provides Benefits for Stroke Recovery

Mar. 28, 2024 — A stroke often impacts a person's ability to move their lower body from the hips down to the feet. This leads to diminished quality of life and mental health in addition to increased susceptibility ...

Could AI Play a Role in Locating Damage to the Brain After Stroke?

Mar. 27, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) may serve as a future tool for neurologists to help locate where in the brain a stroke occurred. In a new study, AI processed text from health histories and neurologic ...

Social, Environmental Factors May Raise Risk of Developing Heart Disease and Stroke

Mar. 27, 2024 — Neighborhoods with more adversity have up to twice the increased risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a new ...

Study Finds High Prevalence of Hidden Brain Changes in People With Heart Disease

Mar. 26, 2024 — A new analysis involving over 13,000 people has found changes to blood vessels in the brain that can increase the risk of stroke and dementia are ...

New Treatment Target Identified for Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 26, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new potential target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease -- PDE4B. The researchers observed that AD mice showed memory deficits in maze tests, but memory was ...

Common Degenerative Brain Disease May Begin to Develop in Middle Age

Mar. 26, 2024 — Lewy body disease may be more common in middle-aged people than previously thought, according to a recent study. In the study, almost one in ten of over 50-year-olds were found to have tissue markers ...

Young Adults With Migraine, Other Nontraditional Risk Factors May Have Higher Stroke Risk

Mar. 26, 2024 — Nontraditional risk factors such as migraines are as important as traditional risk factors like high blood pressure for adults younger than ages ...

More Exposure to Artificial, Bright, Outdoor Night-Time Light Linked to Higher Stroke Risk

Mar. 25, 2024 — Air pollution and night-time outdoor light each were associated with harmful effects on brain health, finds new ...

Mar. 13, 2024 — U.S. veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffered mild traumatic brain injury from exposure to explosive blasts were found to have changes in cerebrospinal fluid proteins that are ...

Safety of a Potential New Treatment to Manage Complications from Sickle Cell Disease

Apr. 11, 2024 — A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension may be effective at managing hypertension and end-organ damage in patients with sickle cell disease, according to a new study. An early phase ...

Early Identification of Persistent Pain Plus Holistic Interventions Cut Opioid Use

Mar. 20, 2024 — In a new study, researchers found that a carefully worded, short questionnaire successfully identified people who were most likely to develop chronic pain. These patients were then steered to a more ...

Doctors Can Now Watch Spinal Cord Activity During Surgery

Mar. 7, 2024 — Scientists can make high resolution images of the human spinal cord during surgery. The advancement could help bring real relief to millions suffering chronic back ...

More Than Half of American Indian Youth May Have Abnormal or High Cholesterol

Mar. 6, 2024 — More than 70% of American Indian young adults aged 20-39 and 50% of American Indian teens have cholesterol levels or elevated fat in the blood that put them at risk for cardiovascular disease, a new ...

Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Shows Promise for Helping Stroke Patients Regain Their Stride

Mar. 4, 2024 — More than 80% of stroke survivors experience walking difficulty, significantly impacting their daily lives, independence, and overall quality of life. Now, new research pushes forward the bounds of ...

Cannabis Use Linked to Increase in Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

Feb. 28, 2024 — More frequent use of cannabis was associated with higher odds of adverse cardiovascular outcomes, finds new ...

Study Finds Pesticide Use Linked to Parkinson's in Rocky Mountain, Great Plains Region

Feb. 28, 2024 — Pesticides and herbicides used in farming have been linked to Parkinson's disease in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region of the country, according to a preliminary ...

Heart Disease Research Challenges 'One Size Fits All' Aspirin Guidelines

Feb. 27, 2024 — Findings of a review of data from three clinical trials challenge current best practice for use of the drug for primary prevention of heart disease or stroke -- otherwise known as atherosclerotic ...

Managing Risk Factors for Common Heart Condition

Feb. 22, 2024 — A large-scale review provides an update on the recent advances in understanding and managing risk factors for atrial fibrillation ...

Muscle as a Heart-Health Predictor

Feb. 21, 2024 — Study shows greater muscle area in men leads increased risk of heart disease; it's different for muscle ...

Fixing Rogue Brain Cells May Hold Key to Preventing Neurodegeneration

Feb. 20, 2024 — Scientists have identified a new therapeutic approach for combating neurodegenerative diseases, offering hope of improved treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Vanishing ...

Helping Caregivers Help People With Dementia Eat at Home

Feb. 15, 2024 — A new study has laid the groundwork for a future intervention designed to help caregivers establish a safe and workable mealtime routine for people with dementia living at ...

Menopause and Migraines: New Findings Point to Power of Prevention

Feb. 14, 2024 — Women who have both migraines and a long-term history of hot flashes and/or night sweats have a slightly higher risk of heart disease and stroke, and young women who have migraines have a higher risk ...

Immune Genes Are Altered in Alzheimer's Patients' Blood

Feb. 9, 2024 — A new study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients' behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the ...

Active Components of Ginkgo Biloba May Improve Early Cognitive Recovery After Stroke

Feb. 1, 2024 — Adults treated with 14 days of intravenous injections of ginkgo diterpene lactone meglumine (GDLM) -- a combination of biologically active components of ginkgo biloba -- after an ischemic ...

Exposure to Even Moderate Levels of Radon Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke

Jan. 31, 2024 — Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Now a new study has found exposure to this invisible, odorless gas is also linked to an increased risk of stroke. The study, which examined exposures ...

Alzheimer's Disease Acquired from Historic Medical Treatments

Jan. 29, 2024 — Five cases of Alzheimer's disease are believed to have arisen as a result of medical treatments decades earlier, reports a team ...

New Tool Helps Predict Progression of Alzheimer's

Jan. 26, 2024 — Researchers have created a novel learning-based framework that will help Alzheimer's patients accurately pinpoint where they are within the disease-development spectrum. This will allow them to ...

More Than Half of US Adults Don't Know Heart Disease Is Leading Cause of Death, Despite 100-Year Reign

Jan. 24, 2024 — More than half (51%) of respondents in a 2023 Harris Poll survey conducted on behalf of the American Heart Association did not identify heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. Heart ...

Post Pandemic, U.S. Cardiovascular Death Rate Continues Upward Trajectory

Jan. 24, 2024 — New research confirms what public health leaders have been fearing: the significant uptick in the cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rate that began in 2020 has continued. The continuing trend ...