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, December 17, 2015

Stroke Rounds: Tooth Loss Linked to Death, Stroke

Tooth loss would mean infections and inflammation in great quantities running thru your body. That is more likely the real reason behind the correlation.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/55285?
Losing a substantial number of teeth was independently associated with cardiovascular events in people with stable coronary heart disease, a large international cohort study showed.
Compared with having lost no more than six teeth, people who lost all their original teeth had a 27% elevated adjusted risk of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), or nonfatal stroke (HR 1.27, 95% CI 1.08-1.49), Ola Vedin, MD, of Sweden's Uppsala University, and colleagues found.
The same comparison was significant also for cardiovascular death (HR 1.85, 95% CI 1.45-2.37), all-cause death (HR 1.81, 95% CI 1.50-2.20), and stroke (HR 1.67, 95% CI 1.15-2.39).
Each intermediate level of self-reported tooth loss was also associated with progressively higher risks after adjustment for cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic status, the researchers reported online in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
But no associations were seen with nonfatal or fatal MI among the 15,456 patients in 39 countries in the STABILITY trial substudy. About 16% of patients in the study had no teeth and roughly 40% were missing half of their teeth.
"This finding indicates that mechanisms leading to tooth loss, most importantly periodontal disease, may contribute to a worse prognosis in coronary heart disease, although causality cannot be established from our results," the researchers cautioned.
"But tooth loss could be an easy and inexpensive way to identify patients at higher risk who need more intense prevention efforts," Vedin said in a press release. "While we can't yet advise patients to look after their teeth to lower their cardiovascular risk, the positive effects of brushing and flossing are well established. The potential for additional positive effects on cardiovascular health would be a bonus."
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