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.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Mercury Exposure and CVD Not Associated

I do wonder how much mercury exposure they are referring to. I remember in high school working with mercury and having it split into little balls and rolling them together in my hand. Of course in today's world no student can touch mercury at all.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Mercury-Exposure-and-CVD-Not-Associated/ArticleNewsFeed/Article/detail/713127?contextCategoryId=40131&ref=25

Exposure to mercury does not appear to increase the risk of stroke, coronary heart disease, or total cardiovascular disease, according to research published in the March 24 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.P.H., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues identified 3,427 incident cases of cardiovascular disease among two cohorts (totaling 51,529 men and 121,700 women) who had stored toenail clippings. They assessed toenail mercury and selenium concentrations.

The researchers found little difference between the two groups in terms of median toenail mercury concentrations, which were 0.23 μg per gram in the case group and 0.25 μg per gram in the control group. Higher exposure to mercury did not appear to increase risk for total cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, or stroke. They had similar findings in analyses of participants with low selenium concentrations or low overall fish consumption and in several other sensitivity analyses.

"We found no evidence of any clinically relevant adverse effects of mercury exposure on coronary heart disease, stroke, or total cardiovascular disease in U.S. adults at the exposure levels seen in this study," the authors write.

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