Tag: stroke prevention
“We can’t afford to wait”—new coalition calls for urgent action to...
The “world’s first” multisector advocacy movement dedicated to stroke—the Global Stroke Action Coalition—is launching today, and has issued an urgent call to action to...
ESC 2024: Mass AF screening via ECG plus heart failure biomarker...
Mass screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) using electrocardiography (ECG) together with a heart failure biomarker does not prevent ischaemic stroke or systemic in older...
Seven-year data provide “compelling evidence” that intracranial stenting does not confer...
Seven-year data from the Chinese CASSISS trial have, in the investigators’ view, provided “compelling evidence” that percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting (PTAS) plus medical...
Mobile app successfully improves stroke medication adherence and risk-factor control
The use of a smartphone-based mobile application may be an effective method for improving medication adherence and risk-factor control among stroke survivors, and appears...
WSO predicts 50% more deaths unless “catastrophic” gaps in global stroke...
Between now and 2050—unless “urgent action is taken”—the number of people who die from stroke globally is estimated to increase by 50%, to 9.7...
Increased annual stroke rate in Canada underscores need for strong treatments...
A new study funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation has revealed that annual stroke occurrence rates in Canada have increased to 108,707—roughly one every five minutes. This...
ESOC 2021: AI can calculate personalised risk of having another stroke
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to give stroke patients a personalised and more accurate assessment of their risk of suffering a recurrence, according...
Behavioural interventions and more holistic approach signal “paradigm shift” in latest...
In May 2021, the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA) updated one of its flagship guidelines—the secondary prevention of stroke guideline—for the first...
ASA highlights value of comprehensive, patient-centred primary care after stroke
In a new scientific statement entitled “Primary Care of Adult Patients After Stroke”, the American Stroke Association (ASA)—a division of the American Heart Association...
Prevention based on first stroke cause can reduce risk of subsequent...
Identifying the cause of a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA)—sometimes called a “mini-stroke”—can lead to specific prevention strategies to reduce the risk of...
