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.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Stiffening of arteries detected in young adults

Artery stiffness is a predictor of CVD. Is your doctor testing for that and then supplying a protocol to address that stiffness? But is the 'arterial spin labeling' method as discussed in this better?

New Method to Measure Artery Stiffness in the Brain Could Provide Early Alzheimers Diagnosis and stroke    'arterial spin labeling'


Possible ways to unstiffen arteries, but I know nothing medical, ask your doctor.

Stiff arteries relax like younger blood vessels after taking alagebrium

Black Raspberry Extract Increased Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Improved Arterial Stiffness in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial 

 The latest way to detect stiff arteries:

Stiffening of arteries detected in young adults

King's College London News
Stiffening of the arteries usually related to aging can be detected in early adulthood using a method known as pulse wave velocity, according to a new study led by researchers at King’s College London with the University of Glasgow. Alongside a lack of physical activity, stresses such as perceived racism were also associated with stiffening of the arteries of the 21–23 year–olds who took part in the multi–ethnic study. Arterial stiffness, measured as aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), has become a useful indicator of cardiovascular risk. However, few studies have investigated its development over time, particularly in young adults and ethnic minority populations. As arterial stiffening develops over the course of one’s life, detecting factors that determine its progression should be useful in delaying or preventing a decline in arterial health. The study, published in the journal Hypertension, tested how factors measured twice previously in childhood in the Determinants of Adolescent, now young Adult, Social wellbeing and Health (DASH) study, particularly body size and blood pressure, affected the emergence of aortic stiffness in young adults. The DASH study is based at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow. The study found that arterial stiffness increased with blood pressure, greater waist/height ratio, lack of physical activity, and reported racism. Despite greater exposure to risk from childhood (overweight, deprivation, racism) among groups such as Black Caribbeans or Black Africans, arterial stiffness was lower compared to their White British peers. However, even at lower blood pressures, some people had stiffer arteries than others. Limitations of the study included the fact that physical activity was not measured in detail in the baseline survey of the cohort.
 

 

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