Deans' stroke musings: Sleep Apnea Tied to Lower Risk of Cardiac Event Recurrence

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 10, 2015

Sleep Apnea Tied to Lower Risk of Cardiac Event Recurrence

More info for your doctor to chew on. Don't do anything about this on your own.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APSS/52026?

Decade-long study upends conventional wisdom

Individuals in a long-running cohort study with coronary heart disease who also had sleep apnea showed lower rates of recurrent cardiac events than otherwise similar participants without sleep apnea, researchers said here.

After adjusting for nearly a dozen potential confounders, the participants with sleep apnea were at 21% lower risk of recurrent events, defined as myocardial infarction or revascularizations (hazard ratio 0.79, 95% CI 0.65-0.97, per 10-point increase in baseline apnea/hypopnea index [AHI] value), with median 9.0 years of follow-up after enrollment, according to Neomi Shah, MD, MPH, of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y.