Stroke Prevention News

February 25, 2025

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People With Certain Heart Conditions May Play Competitive Sports, Scientific Statement Suggests

Feb. 20, 2025 — Shared decision-making between clinicians and athletes of all ages who have cardiovascular abnormalities and want to participate in competitive sports is essential, according to a new joint ...

A Patient's Ability to Perform a Cardiac Stress Test Offers a Critical Window on Their Mortality Risk

Feb. 19, 2025 — A new study demonstrates life-saving benefits of consistent ...

Older Patients Can Inadvertently Be Put at Risk When They Are Taken Off Blood-Thinning Drugs

Feb. 18, 2025 — A new study suggests that the benefits of prescribing anticoagulation drugs to certain older people outweigh the potential ...

A Diabetes, Heart Failure, and Kidney Disease Medication Is the First of Its Kind to Significantly Reduce Both Heart Attacks and Strokes

Feb. 14, 2025 — New research shows sotagliflozin is the only drug in its class to demonstrate these ...

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Blood Test Paves the Way for Better Heart Attack Prevention

Feb. 13, 2025 — The test, which is not yet widely available, is being developed so that it can eventually be used at the ...

An RNA Inhibitor May Effectively Reduce a High-Risk Type of Cholesterol in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

Feb. 12, 2025 — Analysis could lead to future therapies to prevent deadly cardiac ...

Best Approach for Stroke in Medium-Sized Blood Vessels

Feb. 6, 2025 — Researchers continue to advance the science to determine best treatments for stroke. Based on an international study of 530 patients, researchers discovered that while the clot retrieval procedure ...

Deep Learning to Increase Accessibility, Ease of Heart Imaging

Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed a method that leverages artificial intelligence to ensure accurate heart scans without added radiation or ...

Clot-Busting Meds May Be Effective Up to 24 Hours After Initial Stroke Symptoms

Feb. 7, 2025 — In a randomized clinical trial, giving the clot-busting medication alteplase up to 24 hours after stroke symptoms first appeared increased the odds ...

Novel PET Approach Identifies Early Signs of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Jan. 22, 2025 — A new molecular imaging technique -- 18F-FAPI PET -- can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension ...

Later-Onset Menopause Linked to Healthier Blood Vessels, Lower Heart Disease Risk

Feb. 5, 2025 — New research shows that women who hit menopause later in life have healthier blood vessels and mitochondria and a different composition of ...

Your Stroke Risk Might Be Higher If Your Parents Divorced During Your Childhood

Jan. 22, 2025 — People whose parents divorced during their childhood may be at a greater risk of stroke later in life, according to a new ...

Blood Test May Detect Stroke Type Before Hospital Arrival, Allowing Faster Treatment

Jan. 30, 2025 — People with brain bleeds had nearly 7 times higher blood levels of a specific brain protein, called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), than ...

Changing Therapy Practice to Add Higher-Intensity Walking Improves Early Stroke Recovery

Jan. 30, 2025 — By integrating 30 minutes a day of progressive walking exercise into standard stroke rehabilitation (30 to 60 minutes of physical therapy five days a ...

High BP May Develop at Different Ages and Paces in East and South Asian Adults in the UK

Feb. 12, 2025 — South Asian adults in the United Kingdom may face high blood pressure-related heart risks earlier in life, while East Asian adults see risks rise in later years, according to a new ...

Propranolol May Reduce Ischemic Stroke Risk in Women With Migraines

Jan. 30, 2025 — Propranolol, a beta blocker medication used for treating high blood pressure and preventing migraines, may lower ischemic stroke risk in women who experience migraines ...

ECG Tests May Someday Be Used by AI Model to Detect Premature Aging and Cognitive Decline

Jan. 30, 2025 — An artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to predict a person's biological age (age of body cells and tissues) based on electrocardiogram (ECG) data found a strong association between ...

Stroke Warning Sign Acronyms Drive 911 Calls, F.A.S.T. Leads in Symptom Recall for Public

Jan. 30, 2025 — Both F.A.S.T. and BE-FAST acronyms motivated people to call 911 right away for a possible stroke, and this impact lasted for 30 ...

Regular Dental Flossing May Lower Risk of Stroke from Blood Clots, Irregular Heartbeats

Jan. 30, 2025 — People who regularly floss their teeth (one or more times per week) may lower their risk of stroke caused by a blood clot traveling from the heart and a stroke associated with an irregular heartbeat ...

A Common Mouth and Gut Bacteria May Be Linked With Increased Stroke Risk

Jan. 30, 2025 — Increased levels of Streptococcus anginosus, a common type of bacteria that usually lives in the mouth and gut, was found in the gut of recent stroke survivors in ...

Biomarker Tied to Premature Cell Aging May Signal Stroke, Dementia, Late-Life Depression

Jan. 30, 2025 — Shorter protective caps on chromosomes called telomeres, a proposed marker of accelerated biological cell aging, may be associated with an increased risk of stroke, dementia and late-life depression, ...

Researchers Map the Brain's Self-Healing Abilities After Stroke

Jan. 24, 2025 — A new study sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's 'cables'-- the so-called nerve fibers -- which leads to permanent ...

Study Shows Anti-Clotting Drug Reduced Bleeding Events in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Jan. 23, 2025 — Researchers evaluated a drug that represents a new class of anticoagulants known as Factor XI inhibitors for treating patients with atrial fibrillation as part of the AZALEA-TIMI 71 Study. The trial ...

Brains of People With Sickle Cell Disease Appear Older

Jan. 17, 2025 — A new study has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease, helping to explain the cognitive challenges experienced by such individuals. A brain image from a healthy individual ...

Brain Connectome Phenotype Linked to Cerebrovascular Disease Can Track Cognitive Decline

Jan. 13, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered novel insights into how brain function disruptions related to cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) interact with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology to impact ...

Exposure to Aircraft Noise Linked to Worse Heart Function

Jan. 8, 2025 — People who live close to airports and are exposed to high aircraft noise levels could be at greater risk of poor heart function, increasing the likelihood of heart attacks, life-threatening heart ...

Cell-Based Therapy Improves Outcomes in a Pig Model of Heart Attacks

Jan. 7, 2025 — In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, ...

Study Challenges Traditional Risk Factors for Brain Health in the Oldest-Old

Jan. 7, 2025 — A study has found cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which are known to contribute to brain blood vessel damage in younger populations, not to be associated with an ...

Loneliness Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke and Susceptibility to Infection

Jan. 3, 2025 — Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. ...

New Evidence on the Relationship Between Moderate Wine Consumption and Cardiovascular Health

Dec. 18, 2024 — Light and moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular complications, according to a multicenter study. The study is based on the analysis of a biomarker of wine ...

Overactive Cells Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers studied oxygen treatment as a potential therapy to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes ...

Study Sheds Light on What Causes Long-Term Disability After a Stroke and Offers New Path Toward Possible Treatment

Dec. 17, 2024 — Researchers have revealed how an overlooked type of indirect brain damage contributes to ongoing disability after a stroke. The paper shows how the thalamus -- a sort of central networking hub that ...

Atrial Fibrillation: A Review

Dec. 16, 2024 — In the U.S., atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime. Significant ...

Study Likely to Change Standard of Care for Deadly Strokes

Dec. 12, 2024 — Endovascular therapy, a minimally invasive surgery performed inside the blood vessels, is preferred to alternative approaches for vessel obstructions in life-sustaining areas of the brain, analysis ...