Deans' stroke musings: Incidence, trends, and predictors of ischemic stroke 1 year after an acute myocardial infarction

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.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Incidence, trends, and predictors of ischemic stroke 1 year after an acute myocardial infarction

You'll have to see if your doctor is following any protocols in preventing a stroke after your heart attack. I see nothing here that follows my ideas on stroke risk reduction;
My 11 Stroke risk reduction ideas.
Don't follow them, they are not medically proven
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25236874

Ulvenstam A¹, Kajermo U², Modica A², Jernberg T², Söderström L², Mooe T².

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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:

Ischemic stroke after acute myocardial infarction is an important complication. It is unknown whether the risk has changed because the treatment of acute myocardial infarction has improved during the past decade. There is also conflicting data about predictors of stroke risk.

METHODS:

To obtain the 1-year incidence of stroke after acute myocardial infarction, the Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admissions database for the years 1998 to 2008 was merged with the Swedish National Patient Register (NPR). The time trend was studied by dividing the entire time period into 5 separate periods. Independent predictors were identified using a multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model.

RESULTS:

Between 1998 and 2008, 7185 of 173 233 patients with acute myocardial infarction had an ischemic stroke within 1 year (4.1%). There was a 20% relative risk reduction during the study period (1998-2000 versus 2007-2008) relative risk 0.80 (95% confidence interval, 0.75-0.86; P<0.001. Independent predictors of stroke were age, female sex, ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction, previous stroke, previous diabetes mellitus, heart failure at admission, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor treatment and atrial fibrillation. Reperfusion treatment with fibrinolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention and treatment with aspirin, P2Y12-inhibitors, and statins predicted a reduced risk of stroke.

CONCLUSIONS:

The risk of ischemic stroke within a year after myocardial infarction is substantial but has clearly been reduced during the studied time period. The major predictive factors found to correlate well with previous investigations. Reperfusion treatment, thrombocyte aggregation inhibition, and lipid lowering are the main contributors to the observed risk reduction.