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, October 13, 2017

Efficacy and safety of turmeric and curcumin in lowering blood lipid levels in patients with cardiovascular risk factors: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

I wish we would get actual clinical research rather than lazy meta-analysis. That is the only way we will know the exact amounts needed per sex and body size to have the correct levels circulating in our bloodstream. This is useless because it can't give us specifics. Followup is needed that will never occur because we have NO stroke leadership to direct research.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2017/10/13/turmeric-curcumin-cholesterol-cardiovascular-risk-triglycerides/7474521/?newsdt=101317&subspec_id=0&
Nutrition Journal | October 13, 2017
Qin S, et al. - This study appraised turmeric and curcumin with respect to efficacy and safety in lowering blood lipids in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), via a meta-analysis. Findings indicated that by improving serum lipid levels, turmeric and curcumin may protect patients at risk of CVD and, furthermore, curcumin may be used as a well-tolerated dietary adjunct to conventional drugs.

Methods

  • Researchers performed a comprehensive literature search on PubMed, Embase, Ovid, Medline and Cochrane Library databases to identify randomized controlled trials (published as of November 2016) that evaluated the impact of turmeric and curcumin on blood lipid levels including total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides (TG).
  • The effect was assessed using pooled standardized mean difference (SMD) with 95% confidence interval (CI).

Results

  • A total of 7 eligible studies (649 patients) were included in the analysis.
  • Researchers found that, compared to the control group, turmeric and curcumin significantly reduced serum LDL-C (SMD = -0.340, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.530 to -0.150, P < 0.0001) and TG (SMD = -0.214, 95% CI: -0.369 to -0.059, P = 0.007) levels.
  • Data also suggested that these may be effective in lowering serum TC levels in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS, SMD = -0.934, 95% CI: -1.289 to -0.579,P < 0.0001), and turmeric extract could possibly have a greater effect on reducing serum TC levels (SMD = -0.584, 95% CI: -0.980 to -0.188, P = 0.004); however, the efficacy is yet to be confirmed.
  • It was also noted that serum HDL-C levels were not improved.
  • In addition, as per observations, turmeric and curcumin appeared safe, and no serious adverse events were reported in any of the included studies.
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