Deans' stroke musings: A comparison of two LDL cholesterol targets after ischemic stroke

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.

Monday, November 25, 2019

A comparison of two LDL cholesterol targets after ischemic stroke

Will this change your doctors protocol post stroke? Do you prefer your doctor's incompetence in NOT KNOWING or NOT DOING?

A comparison of two LDL cholesterol targets after ischemic stroke

New England Journal of Medicine — Amarenco P, Kim JS, Labreuche J, et al. | November 22, 2019

In this parallel-group trial carried out in France and South Korea, researchers randomized 2,860 individuals with ischemic stroke in the former 3 months or a transient ischemic attack (TIA) within the former 15 days to a target LDL cholesterol level of less than 70 mg per deciliter (lower-target group, n = 1,430) or to a target range of 90 mg to 110 mg per deciliter (higher-target group, n = 1,430) in order to examine the target level for LDL cholesterol to decrease cardiovascular events following stroke. It was concluded that following an ischemic stroke or TIA with evidence of atherosclerosis, compared with those who had a target range of 90 mg to 110 mg per deciliter, individuals who had a target LDL cholesterol level of less than 70 mg per deciliter had a lower risk of succeeding cardiovascular events.

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