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.

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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, June 4, 2014

Alcohol intake and risk of stroke: A dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

Once again you'll have to ask your doctor to find out what is low vs. med. vs. high intakes, and what the hell this means. Then ask them how important social support is. I use dinners and drinking for my social support, I am extensively supported, so much so that I gained a fair amount of weight. For my part my drinking is way too much fun to consider reducing it. I will at least be enjoying myself even if the stroke risk is higher.  I compare it to the whitewater canoe trip that caused my dissection and subsequent stroke. That was the best vacation I'd ever had and even if I knew the risk of stroke I would have gone on it anyway. Sometimes I'm a fatalist.
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/newsl-article.cfm/5286821/ZZF307965849E94474BB34FC062CEC0F93/?

International Journal of Cardiology,  Clinical Article

Zhang C, et al. – The purpose of this study was to summarize the evidence regarding this relationship by using a dose–response meta–analytic approach. Low alcohol intake is associated with a reduced risk of stroke morbidity and mortality, whereas heavy alcohol intake is associated with an increased risk of total stroke. The association between alcohol intake and stroke morbidity and mortality is J–shaped.
Methods
  • Authors performed electronic searches of PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library to identify relevant prospective studies.
  • Only prospective studies that reported effect estimates with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of stroke morbidity and mortality for more than 2 categories of alcohol intake were included.
Results
  • They included 27 prospective studies reporting data on 1,425,513 individuals.
  • Low alcohol intake was associated with a reduced risk of total stroke (risk ratio [RR], 0.85; 95% CI: 0.75–0.95; P = 0.005), ischemic stroke (RR, 0.81; 95% CI: 0.74–0.90; P < 0.001), and stroke mortality (RR, 0.67; 95% CI: 0.53–0.85; P = 0.001), but it had no significant effect on hemorrhagic stroke.
  • Moderate alcohol intake had little or no effect on the risks of total stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, and stroke mortality.
  • Heavy alcohol intake was associated with an increased risk of total stroke (RR, 1.20; 95% CI: 1.01–1.43; P = 0.034), but it had no significant effect on hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, and stroke mortality.
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  1. Barb PolanJune 6, 2014 at 5:03 PM

    Not me - rowing probably caused my dissection, and people think I'm crazy to be so driven to return to rowing. If I had known, I would have rowed anyway, but differently. It's hard to accept that trying my hardest is what got me into this state. When I do get to row again, I'm going to take it a bit easier and let the other rowers carry me. Seriously?

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