Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Statins Not Suitable For Certain Patients: Study

Another reason to talk to your doctor about statins.
http://www.medindia.net/news/Statins-Not-Suitable-For-Certain-Patients-Study-89452-1.htm
For many patients who has suffered strokes or heart attacks, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs can help to reduce the risk. But neurologists from Loyola University Health System have warned that statins may not be appropriate for certain categories of patients.

A landmark 2006 study known as SPARCL found that statins reduced the risk of subsequent strokes by 16 percent in patients who have experienced strokes or transient ischemic attacks (mini strokes).


But the Loyola neurologists say this benefit generally applies only to patients who have experienced ischemic strokes, which are caused by blood clots in brain vessels.

And even among ischemic stroke patients, there is a small subgroup that should be placed on statin therapy only "with circumspection," wrote Dr. Murray Flaster, an associate professor in the departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, and colleagues.

These patients are those who have had strokes in small blood vessels, have poorly controlled high blood pressure and consume more than one drink of alcohol per day.

The picture is more varied for the 15 percent of stroke patients who have had hemorrhagic strokes (caused by bleeding on or in the brain).

There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke: aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). An SAH stroke involves bleeding over the surface of the brain, while an ICH stroke involves bleeding inside the brain.

Read more: Statins Not Suitable For Certain Patients: Study | MedIndia http://www.medindia.net/news/Statins-Not-Suitable-For-Certain-Patients-Study-89452-1.htm#ixzz1ViN0Yxpp

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