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.

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.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A comparison of two LDL cholesterol targets after ischemic stroke

Wrong measurement, you measure the primary problem, inflammation, NOT this secondary issue. Some century from now, doctors will finally address the real problem, but you, your children and grandchildren will be dead.

Prevent inflammation and cholesterol won't be grabbed out of the bloodstream and packed into plaque. Solve the correct problem not a bystander. Don't listen to me, I'm not medically indoctrinated. Ask your doctor what the 25% of cholesterol in your body that is in your brain is doing. You can see by these dates that incompetence reigns supreme in the stroke medical world.

I'm sure there is much more good stuff in these posts:

inflammation (306 posts to December 2011)

I would much rather do this:

This gene could reduce inflammation after stroke June 2019

Or this:

Resolvins, generated naturally from fish oil, show promise as anti-inflammation treatment. Aug. 2016

Or this:

Antibody blocks inflammation, protects mice from hardened arteries and liver disease

June 2018

The latest here:

A comparison of two LDL cholesterol targets after ischemic stroke

New England Journal of Medicine — Amarenco P, Kim JS, Labreuche J, et al. | January 07, 2020

In this parallel-group trial carried out in France and South Korea, researchers analyzed the target level for LDL cholesterol to decrease cardiovascular events post-stroke. They randomly assigned target LDL cholesterol levels below 70 mg per deciliter (1.8 mmol per liter; lower-target group) or a target range of 90 mg to 110 mg per deciliter (2.3 to 2.8 mmol per liter; higher-target group) in patients who suffered an ischemic stroke in the previous 3 months or a transient ischemic attack (TIA) within the previous 15 days. In total, 2,860 patients were registered and followed for a median of 3.5 years; 1,430 were assigned to each LDL cholesterol target group. There was no significant difference between the two groups in the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage and newly diagnosed diabetes. The authors discovered that patients with a target LDL cholesterol level of < 70 mg per deciliter had a lower risk of subsequent cardiovascular events after an ischemic stroke or TIA with evidence of atherosclerosis than those with a target range of 90 mg to 110 mg per deciliter.