Deans' stroke musings: Americans' Heart Health Varies Significantly From State to State

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, December 19, 2012

Americans' Heart Health Varies Significantly From State to State

And once again the easy way out is being taken by forcing all the prevention stuff on you rather than acknowledging that vast amounts of stroke disability could be prevented by stopping the neuronal cascade of death. Another American Stroke Association failure. Dr. Sacco?
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/12/19/americans-heart-health-varies-significantly-state-state
Americans' cardiovascular health varies greatly from state to state, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).
The study is the first to assess cardiovascular health at the state level.
"Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is funding state heart disease and stroke prevention programs, we thought it would be helpful to have cardiovascular health information on the state level, to help better focus our efforts," said Jing Fang, M.D., M.S., an epidemiologist with the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.
Using 2009 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System – a telephone survey of more than 350,000 people in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. –researchers collected information on the American Heart Association's seven major heart-health factors: blood pressure, total cholesterol, smoking, body mass index, diabetes, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable consumption. These factors are used as a proxy measure in this study for a healthy diet.
Researchers found:

The percentage of the population reporting ideal cardiovascular health — defined as having optimal levels of all seven factors — was lowest in Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Mississippi and highest in Washington, D.C., Vermont and Virginia.
About 3 percent of the total U.S. population reported having ideal heart health.
About 10 percent of the total population reported having poor cardiovascular health, with two or less heart-health factors at optimal levels.
In general, people living in western and New England states reported having a higher percentage of ideal cardiovascular health.

The rest at the link