Deans' stroke musings: Health Risks After Stroke May Linger for at Least 5 Years: 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.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Health Risks After Stroke May Linger for at Least 5 Years: Study

I quit seeing a doctor 2 years after my stroke because he knew absolutely nothing about stroke rehab. But your doctor might be better. Did your doctor manage to get you into the 10% get to almost full recovery? Mine obviously didn't. I look at this as mainly a way to try to get payable visits from survivors. I still wait for pay for performance for recovery goals.
http://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/neurology-news-496/health-risks-after-stroke-linger-for-at-least-5-years-study-692375.html
Stroke survivors remain at high risk for another stroke or other serious medical problems and death for at least five years, a new study suggests.
The findings may mean that stroke survivors require closer follow-up to prevent these health problems, the Canadian researchers said.
"This high long-term risk was surprising and shows that we need to develop better strategies and interventions for these patients to prevent as many of these serious problems as we can," study leader Dr. Richard Swartz, director of the University of Toronto stroke program, said in a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada news release.
In the study, Swartz's team analyzed data from about 24,000 patients in Canada who suffered a stroke or mini-stroke, clinically known as a "transient ischemic attack" (TIA).
All of the patients had already survived the "high-danger" period, which is typically thought to be the 90 days after hospital discharge.
However, within the first year after this high-risk period, 9.3 percent of the patients died, had a repeat stroke, mini-stroke, heart attack or were admitted to long-term care. Death was the most common of these events, affecting more than 5 percent of patients in the first year.
Among patients who were still alive after a year, the rate of these events remained at 5 percent in each of the following four years, according to the study to be presented Tuesday at the Canadian Stroke Congress in Vancouver.
"We now need to identify ways to determine which people, among those who have made it through the riskiest period, remain most at risk for serious events so we can develop appropriate preventive interventions," Swartz said.

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