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, April 9, 2020

Atherosclerosis Progresses Rapidly in Healthy People From the Age of 40

At age 50 despite being extremely healthy my right carotid artery got to 80% closure, which is not a problem except that the plaque tore, clotted and sent that clot to the brain. I would never have stented that because the risk from stenting is too great and ideally my doctors would have tested for a complete Circle of Willis.  For 10 years that artery was completely closed which was great, now I guess collaterals have formed around it.  My coronary arteries are pretty good though.  What is your doctor doing to clear that plaque?  Stenting doesn't clear anything.

Do you want the lawnmower?
Lawnmower For Clogged Arteries
Or Drano? I would be worried about this, sloughing off chunks
Drano For Clogged Arteries
Or conventional?
9 Complications With Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Or this?

Israeli study uses gold particles to ‘seek and destroy’ artery blockages

But I'd rather my doctor told me how much watermelon juice to drink.

Watermelon juice reverses hardening of the arteries  Nov. 2011

I'm not medically trained so nothing here should be brought to your doctor's attention because they being completely up-to-date will already know about it.

The latest here:

Atherosclerosis Progresses Rapidly in Healthy People From the Age of 40

Atheroma plaques extend rapidly through the arteries of 40% of asymptomatic individuals aged 40 to 50 years, according to a study published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology.

“The key finding of the study is that over a short follow-up of just 3 years, 40% of individuals aged 40 to 50 years showed major progression of atherosclerosis in distinct locations, including the carotid, femoral, and coronary arteries,” said Beatriz López-Melgar, MD, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain. “This rapid disease progression could make these individuals more vulnerable to developing symptoms or having clinical events such as a myocardial infarction or stroke.”

The Progression of Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis (PESA) study has been monitoring 4,200 healthy middle-aged men and women with noninvasive imaging technology, such as 2D or 3D ultrasound, for more than 10 years.

“[Noninvasive technology] allows us to identify the progression of the disease earlier than is possible with classical markers, such as the presence of coronary calcium detected by computed tomography, thus allowing us to identify individuals at higher risk who could benefit from early intervention,” said Valentín Fuster, MD, CNIC.

“This study is the first to analyse the progression of atherosclerosis at frequent intervals,” added Borja Ibañez, MD, CNIC. “The previous view was that the disease progressed very slowly throughout life. However, the new results show that the disease progressed very rapidly in 40% of the individuals analysed.”

The researchers conclude that the findings, while they await validation from the occurrence of events in the PESA cohort in the future, will be of great value for the identification of strategies to stall the epidemic of cardiovascular disease.

“Future data from the PESA study will show whether this progression is associated with subsequent cardiovascular events,” said Dr. Ibañez. “Until now, the speed of atherosclerosis progression has not been a factor in assessing individual risk.”

Reference: http://www.onlinejacc.org/content/75/14/1617

SOURCE: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III

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