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.

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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.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Stroke risk system developed - Japanese

You and your doctor can test it against these four others.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130320001946.htm
Japanese researchers said Tuesday they have developed a point-based system that can predict stroke risk over a 10-year period.
Blood pressure levels, smoking and other risk factors are taken into account in the point-based prediction model, said the researchers including Prof. Hiroshi Yatsuya of Fujita Health University in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture. In cooperation with the National Cancer Center, Yatsuya created the model based on the results of research conducted between 1993 and 2007 on 16,000 adults across the country.
The model gives a subject points in accordance with the risk values set for six factors--age, sex, current smoking habits, presence of diabetes, body mass index and blood pressure. The points are used to calculate the 10-year stroke risk and the age of the subject's blood vessels.
For example, a 50-year-old male smoker gets 6 points for his age, another 6 for his sex and a further 4 for his smoking habit.
If his body mass index is 26, slightly over the standard, he gets an additional 2 points. He gets zero if he does not have diabetes, but gets 6 if his blood pressure without antihypertension medication is over 135/85.
With a total of 24 points, the model indicates the age of his blood vessels is 64 years old, 14 years older than his actual age. His 10-year stroke risk is calculated at between 3 percent and 4 percent.
High blood pressure is seen as the biggest risk factor, apart from age. Next is diabetes in men, followed by smoking and obesity. For women, smoking is followed by diabetes and obesity.

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