Deans' stroke musings: Lack Of Sun May Increase Stroke Risk

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.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Lack Of Sun May Increase Stroke Risk

Cause or just a correlation?

Experts: Vitamin D May Explain The Association

http://www.koat.com/health/30352727/detail.html
People who live in areas with the least amount of sunlight may have a greater risk for stroke, according to findings presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in New Orleans this week.Strokes occur when blood and oxygen is cut off from the brain due to a blood clot or a burst blood vessel. Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and the number one cause of disability, according to the American Stroke Association.What's unique about this study, explained professor Leslie A. McClure, a biostatistician from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is that her team used NASA satellite and ground monitor data to determine sunlight and temperature exposure and how it corresponded with the stroke risk of study participants.When the different factors were compared, McClure said they found that people who had less than the midpoint level of sun exposure were at 60% increased risk for stroke. The study also confirmed previous findings that both hot and cold temperature exposure is associated with higher stroke incidence.The UAB researchers used data from the REGARDS (REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) project, a long term study that includes more than 30,000 Caucasian and African American participants, age 45 and older. The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health.