Deans' stroke musings: Change in body weight and long-term risk of stroke and death in healthy men

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.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Change in body weight and long-term risk of stroke and death in healthy men

I'm quite sure my weight barely changed from 25 until my stroke at age 50, my activity level was quite high resulting in excellent cardiovascular fitness, level of an athlete. Once again crapola prevention research rather than rehab recovery research. Damn, we really do need survivors in charge to do the right rehab research.

Change in body weight and long-term risk of stroke and death in healthy men

Stroke — Prestgaard E, Mariampillai J, Engeseth K, et al. | April 10, 2020

Researchers intended to determine if there is a connections between early- and mid-life weight change and risks of stroke and death during long-term follow-up of healthy men. Participants in the study were healthy men (aged 40 to 59 years) and conducted a cardiovascular examination at baseline and again at 7 years. Data were gathered on weight change since the age of 25 (early-life weight change) and measured weight change from baseline to the visit at 7 years (mid-life weight change). Of the 2,014 candidates, 2,014 (100%) had data on early-life weight change and were followed for a median of 30.1 years, on the other hand, 1,403 had data on mid-life weight change and were followed for a median of 24.6 years. According to findings, early but not mid-life weight increases appear to be associated with an increased long-term risk of stroke in healthy men. If these findings can be confirmed, efforts should target the younger population to prevent weight gains.