Deans' stroke musings: Doing This Activity 1 Hour a Week Lowers Heart Attack/Stroke Risk by 40-70 Percent

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, November 29, 2018

Doing This Activity 1 Hour a Week Lowers Heart Attack/Stroke Risk by 40-70 Percent - Strength training

You'll need your doctor to set up the correct protocol. You can't do this on your own, way too dangerous, practicing medicine without a license.

Doing This Activity 1 Hour a Week Lowers Heart Attack/Stroke Risk by 40-70 Percent - Strength training

Yanghui Liu; Duck-chul Lee; Yehua Li; Weicheng Zhu; Riquan Zhang; Xuemei Sui; Carl J. Lavie; Steven N. Blair

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Abstract

PurposeResistance exercise (RE) can improve many cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, but specific data on the effects on CVD events and mortality are lacking. We investigated the associations of RE with CVD and all-cause mortality, and further examined the mediation effect of body mass index between RE and CVD outcomes.
MethodsWe included 12,591 participants (mean age 47 years) who received at least two clinical examinations 1987-2006. RE was assessed by a self-reported medical history questionnaire.
ResultsDuring a mean follow-up of 5.4 and 10.5 years, 205 total CVD events (morbidity and mortality combined) and 276 all-cause deaths occurred, respectively. Compared with no RE, weekly RE frequencies of one, two, three times or total amount of 1-59 minutes were associated with approximately 40-70% decreased risk of total CVD events, independent of aerobic exercise (AE) (all p-values <0.05). However, there was no significant risk reduction for higher weekly RE of more than four times or ≥60 minutes. Similar results were observed for CVD morbidity and all-cause mortality. In the stratified analyses by AE, weekly RE of one time or 1-59 minutes was associated with lower risks of total CVD events and CVD morbidity regardless of meeting the AE guidelines. Our mediation analysis showed that RE was associated with the risk of total CVD events in two ways: RE had a direct U-shape association with CVD risk (p-value for quadratic trend <0.001) and RE indirectly lowered CVD risk by decreasing BMI.
ConclusionEven one time or less than one hour/week of RE, independent of AE, is associated with reduced risks of CVD and all-cause mortality. BMI mediates the association of RE with total CVD events.