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, September 18, 2011

Pushy people more at risk for heart attack, stroke


At least this is not one of my problems. And why would a US institute use Italians to study rather than US citizens?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296227


A study from the US National Institute on Aging shows that people who are annoyingly competitive or aggressive may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke.
Researchers studied 5,600 Italians from four villages and found that those who were identified as having antagonistic personality traits also had thicker carotid arteries than villagers with more agreeable personalities. Thick carotid artery walls are considered a risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. The study also showed that the condition worsens over time. The group was tested again after three years, and researchers found that those people who were considered manipulative and short-tempered also had progressively thicker artery walls. “People who tend to be competitive and more willing to fight for their own self interest have thicker arterial walls,” said Angelina Sutin, lead author of the study published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. “Agreeable people tend to be trusting, straightforward and show concern for others, while people who score high on antagonism tend to be distrustful, skeptical and at the extreme cynical, manipulative, arrogant, and quick to express anger.” The personality traits of the study participants were determined through a standard personality test. Ultrasound was used to determine the thickness of the carotid arteries. Participants were also screened for other medical conditions that could impact the results. The study also found that women tended to have thinner carotid artery walls than men, though women who were considered antagonistic showed substantial thickening as well. The condition also stretched across age groups, with young people considered aggressive already showing a thickening.

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