Deans' stroke musings: Association between cholesterol levels and infections after ischemic stroke

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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.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Association between cholesterol levels and infections after ischemic stroke

Fascinating because the first thing your doctor is probably going to do is vastly reduce your cholesterol levels via drugs.

Association between cholesterol levels and infections after ischemic stroke

Mazzacane F, Leuci E, Persico A, et al

European Journal of Neurology|May 29, 2020

This single center prospective cohort study was undertaken to determine if cholesterol levels are correlated with the risk of infectious complications (IC) in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Total (TOTc), Low Density Lipoprotein and High Density Lipoprotein cholesterol levels have been measured within 24 hours from admission. The occurrence of any IC (pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, other infection) during hospitalization was the outcome of interest. There were a total of 603 patients (median age 78, 49.3% males), of whom 134 (22.2%) developed an IC. Patients with IC had lower TOTc vs patients without IC. In patients with ischemic stroke, higher cholesterol levels are independently linked to lower risk of IC. Further studies are needed to validate the results and to describe the underlying biological mechanisms of this association.

Read the full article on European Journal of Neurology.