Deans' stroke musings: A systematic review of the impact of obesity on stroke inpatient rehabilitation functional outcomes

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, July 18, 2020

A systematic review of the impact of obesity on stroke inpatient rehabilitation functional outcomes

Obesity doesn't change one damn thing about the only goal in stroke. 100% RECOVERY FOR ALL. No survivor is left behind.

A systematic review of the impact of obesity on stroke inpatient rehabilitation functional outcomes

NeuroRehabilitation , Volume 46(3) , Pgs. 403-415.

NARIC Accession Number: J83973. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): MacDonald, Shannon L. ; Journeay, W. Shane ; Uleryk, Elizabeth.
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 13.

Abstract:

This review evaluated studies investigating the effect of obesity on functional outcomes of patients undergoing inpatient stroke rehabilitation. MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane databases were searched for relevant studies using the subject headings and text word terms for stroke, rehabilitation, and obesity. Seven studies from five countries with a total of 3,070 participants were included. Two independent reviewers screened the articles against pre-defined eligibility criteria and extracted the data. Outcomes of interest included the Functional Independence Measure, Modified Rankin Scale, Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Sensorimotor Recovery after Stroke, and Barthel Index. There was significant heterogeneity among the studies in the body mass index cut-off points and functional outcome measures used. Two studies found a positive association between obesity and functional outcome, two studies found no association, and three studies reported a negative relationship. Based on the current evidence, no conclusions could be drawn regarding whether the functional outcome of adults undergoing inpatient stroke rehabilitation differ between individuals with and without obesity.
Descriptor Terms: FUNCTIONAL STATUS, LITERATURE REVIEWS, OBESITY, OUTCOMES, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: MacDonald, Shannon L. , Journeay, W. Shane , Uleryk, Elizabeth. (2020). A systematic review of the impact of obesity on stroke inpatient rehabilitation functional outcomes. NeuroRehabilitation , 46(3), Pgs. 403-415. Retrieved 7/18/2020, from REHABDATA database.