Stroke Prevention News

March 30, 2025

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New Evidence Links Microplastics With Chronic Disease

Mar. 25, 2025 — Tiny fragments of plastic have become ubiquitous in our environment and our bodies. Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a heightened prevalence of chronic noncommunicable ...

Growing Body of Evidence Links HPV With Heart Disease

Mar. 25, 2025 — In addition to causing several types of cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to bring a significantly increased risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, according to a new ...

AI-Powered Mammograms: A New Window Into Heart Health

Mar. 20, 2025 — Mammograms, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) models, may reveal much more than cancer, according to a new study. The findings highlight how these important cancer screening tools can also be used to assess the amount of calcium buildup ...

Stroke Rehabilitation Drug Repairs Brain Damage

Mar. 18, 2025 — A new study has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice, following from human ...

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Highly Educated People Face Steeper Mental Declines After Stroke

Mar. 26, 2025 — Stroke survivors who have attended some level of higher education may face even steeper mental declines, according to a study. The findings suggest that attending higher education may enable people ...

Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack

Mar. 18, 2025 — Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the ...

Lifestyle Risks Weigh Heavier on Women's Hearts

Mar. 18, 2025 — Lifestyle and health factors that are linked with heart disease appear to have a greater impact on cardiovascular risk in women than ...

Minimal TV Viewing May Be Protective for Heart Diseases Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Mar. 12, 2025 — A sedentary lifestyle such as watching TV (two or more hours daily) may be a key factor in the risk of developing heart and blood vessel diseases, ...

Stressed Out? It May Increase the Risk of Stroke

Mar. 5, 2025 — Some people living with chronic stress have a higher risk of stroke, according to a new study. The study looked at younger adults and found an association between stress and stroke, with no known ...

Atherosclerosis: How Immune Cells Migrate Into Plaques

Feb. 25, 2025 — CD8+ T cells accumulate in atherosclerotic plaques. Researchers identify a crucial signaling pathway -- with therapeutic ...

New Genetic Risk Score Identifies Individuals at Risk for Heart Disease Who May Benefit Most from Cholesterol-Lowering Therapies

Feb. 26, 2025 — Coronary artery disease (CAD), or the narrowing of the coronary arteries, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Real Time Monitoring of Stroke Using Light and Sound

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have successfully observed early vascular changes in stroke using an innovative photoacoustic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 of better recovery by 50% compared to those who ...

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 ...

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 metabolites in their blood than those who stop menstruating ...

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 ...

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 those who had strokes caused by clots in a study ...

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 week) stroke patients had a measurable improved ...

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 ...

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 (PAH), providing physicians with an early marker ...