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.

Friday, December 14, 2012

AHA releases new heart disease, stroke projections for 2013


Once again our stroke associations are taking the easy way out by saying, You   make changes because we have no interest in figuring out how to help you recover after you have a stroke, that would be too much work for us to accomplish. You will notice they never mention anything they are going to do, what a worthless organization.  Dr. Sacco, your reply?

http://www.healio.com/cardiology/chd-prevention/news/online/%7B4DB88C18-50ED-4F54-81FC-9BBF191394C6%7D/AHA-releases-new-heart-disease-stroke-projections-for-2013
According to projections in the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2013, CV health may only improve by 6% if current trends continue.
The AHA cites the biggest barriers to success as projected increases in obesity and diabetes, and only modest improvements in diet and physical activity. In contrast, smoking, high cholesterol and hypertension rates are projected to decline, according to a press release.
“Americans need to move a lot more, eat healthier and less, and manage risk factors as soon as they develop,” Alan S. Go, MD, chairman of the report’s writing committee and chief of the cardiovascular and metabolic conditions section of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California division of research in Oakland, Calif., stated in the release. “If not, we’ll quickly lose the momentum we’ve gained in reducing heart attack and stroke rates and improving survival over the last few decades.”
The report contains the most up-to-date statistics on CVD, stroke and other vascular diseases. According to the recent data:
  • The rate of CVD-related deaths decreased by 32.7% from 1999 to 2009, but still accounted for one in three deaths in the United States.
  • More than 34% of adults aged 20 years and older are obese and 68.2% are overweight or obese; just 31.8% are of normal weight or underweight.
  • Thirty-two percent of children aged 2 to 19 years are overweight or obese.
  • Thirty-two percent of adults report no aerobic activity, and 17.7% of girls and 10% of boys in grades 9 to 12 report less than 1 hour of aerobic activity per week.
  • Fourteen percent of adults have total cholesterol of 240 mg/dL or higher.
  • Hypertension is present in about 33% of adults, with blacks having the highest prevalence worldwide (44%).
  • More than 8% of adults have diagnosed diabetes, 8.2% have undiagnosed diabetes and 38.2% have prediabetes.
  • Despite four decades of improvement, 21.3% of men and 16.7% of women report smoking cigarettes; 18.1% of students in grades 9 to 12 report smoking.
The Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update is compiled every year by the AHA in conjunction with the CDC, NIH and other government agencies to bring together the most recent statistics on CVD, stroke, other vascular diseases and their risk factors.

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