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.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Unmasking the benefits of B vitamins in stroke prevention

Not much to go on here, can't tell if this is dietary or supplements. Your doctor should be subscribing to The Lancet. You can check out other commentary here:
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/12/jama-commentary-contends-vitamin.html
The Lancet here:
 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2812%2970094-7/fulltext
 Vitamin B12 and folate are key mediators of homocysteine metabolism. Low plasma vitamin B12 and folate concentrations are associated with hyperhomocysteinaemia, with consequent premature atherosclerosis and increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.1,2 In a meta-analysis of observational studies, a 25% reduction in homocysteine concentrations (roughly 3 μmol/L [0·41 mg/L]) corresponded with an 11% lower risk of ischaemic heart disease and a 19% lower risk of stroke.3 The Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation 2 (HOPE 2) trial4 and re-analysis of data from the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) study5 (both trials in which patients received high doses of B vitamins) have confirmed these findings for stroke.

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