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.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Simple blood test could help reduce heart disease deaths

You just might want to have your doctor and stroke hospital ensure full human testing is done INCLUDING PROTOCOLS THAT ADDRESS THE PROBLEM. Or you can just let them be incompetent as always. Up to you, think of your children and grandchildren, what would they say if they knew you did nothing?  You can't trust your board of directors to have the goals in place of solving stroke, not just fucking around with the failed status quo.

Simple blood test could help reduce heart disease deaths


MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events | February 25, 2020
Scientists at Newcastle University have revealed how a simple blood test could be used to help identify cardiovascular aging and the risk of heart disease.
For the first time, experts led by Professor Konstantinos Stellos report that higher levels of amyloid-beta in the blood may be a key indicator of cardiovascular .
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It is hoped that this research will one day lead to the development of a that could be used as a clinical biomarker to identify patients who are most at risk, so that preventative measures can be put in place and reduced.

Key role of amyloid-beta

Amyloid-beta is known to be involved in the development of Alzheimer disease, yet scientists have now concluded that it may have a key role to play in vascular stiffening, thickening of the arteries, and disease progression.
The work, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, proposes the existence of a common link between both conditions, which has not been acknowledged before, and could lead to better .
The findings suggest that the higher the level of amyloid-beta in the blood the higher the risk of developing serious heart complications.
Professor Stellos, from Newcastle University's Biosciences Institute, UK, who also works as a consultant cardiologist at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, led a series of international studies over the last few years, which involved experts from countries such as Greece, Germany, Switzerland and the US.
He said: "Our work has created and put all the pieces of the puzzle together. For the first time, we have provided evidence of the involvement of amyloid-beta in early and later stages of cardiovascular disease.
"What is really exciting is that we were able to reproduce these unexpected, clinically meaningful findings in patients from around the world. In all cases, we observed that amyloid-beta is a biomarker of cardiovascular aging and of cardiovascular disease prognosis."

Global health problem

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death around the world, taking almost 18 million lives each year. It includes , heart attack, heart failure and other conditions.
Professor Stellos' Group, in collaboration with several international scientists, analyzed from more than 6,600 patients from multiple cohort studies in nine countries, and found that patients could be divided into high and low risk categories of heart disease based on their amyloid-beta levels.
In the future, it is hoped that a simple blood test could be added to the current method of patient screening, known as the GRACE score, which assesses heart attack risk and guides patients' treatment plans.
Using the GRACE score, eight factors are used to predict the risk of heart attack, including age, blood pressure, kidney function and elevated biomarkers.
Further research at Newcastle University will focus on clinical trials to establish the use of a bedside blood test in predicting risk of heart attack and/or death and look at the most effective ways to reduce amyloid-beta in the blood.
Professor Stellos said: "I am interested in knowing which of my patients is at risk of death and/or recurrent heart attacks.
"Measuring amyloid-beta reclassified a large proportion of patients who had a in the correct risk categories over an established guideline-suggested risk score in independent clinical studies.
"If blood-based predicts death in patients with heart disease, does it make a therapeutic target? Our next step is to investigate this."
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