Deans' stroke musings: Aspirin works better for some in preventing heart disease and stroke: Study

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.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Aspirin works better for some in preventing heart disease and stroke: Study

You do expect your doctor to contact you in the next week to determine if you are genetically resistant to aspirin, Don't you?
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Nearly 60 million Americans take aspirin every day to help prevent heart attacks and stroke, but new research from Duke University shows aspirin may not be fully effective for 10 to 15 percent of the population.
A study published Wednesday in the online Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that a blood-based test of gene activity was able to detect "aspirin resistance," which causes the cardiovascular system to be less responsive to traditional aspirin therapy.
"We have seen a substantial number of people who take aspirin for prevention come back in with heart attacks and strokes, so we knew it wasn't working in some people," said Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, senior author and director of genomic medicine at Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. "We wanted to look at that under controlled conditions."
About 25 to 30 percent of patients using aspirin therapy eventually have strokes or heart attacks, he said. Genetics, environmental conditions and behavior patterns all are known to play a role in cardiovascular health.

The rest at the link.