Deans' stroke musings: Serum lipid profiles and post-stroke depression in acute ischemic stroke patients

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.

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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.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Serum lipid profiles and post-stroke depression in acute ischemic stroke patients

Useless. Nothing on what actions should be taken either to prevent this or alleviate this problem.

Serum lipid profiles and post-stroke depression in acute ischemic stroke patients

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment — Shen H, et al. | June 18, 2019

Lipid profiles have been linked with an increased risk of stroke and depression, so researchers assessed the possible connection between serum lipid profiles and post-stroke depression (PSD), a common psychiatric complication of stroke, in 373 patients with acute ischemic stroke. Serum lipid profiles were measured within 24 hours of admission, including high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), apolipoprotein A1 (Apo A1) and apolipoprotein B (Apo B). Depression symptoms were evaluated at one-month by the 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD-17), and PSD diagnosis was indicated by HAMD scores ≥7. At one month, PSD was diagnosed in 114 (30.6%) patients. According to findings, PSD is associated with decreased HDL-C levels and elevated LDL/HDL ratio levels. HDL-C and the ratio LDL/HDL can be independent PSD predictors. No differences were seen in TGs, TC, Apo A1 or Apo B.

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