Deans' stroke musings: Cardiovascular disease is the top killer in the US - with heart disease and stroke responsible for 1 in 3 deaths

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.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Cardiovascular disease is the top killer in the US - with heart disease and stroke responsible for 1 in 3 deaths

And yet our fucking failures of stroke associations haven't managed to make stroke and cardiovascular disease into a tipping point where every new research item is breathlessly reported on by the popular media. They do lots of press releases but haven't figured out how to make stroke and CVD important. And this comes from a UK site.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3366388/Cardiovascular-disease-killer-heart-disease-stroke-responsible-1-3-deaths.html

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US, a new report revealed.

One in every three deaths in the US occurs because of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.

And across the globe, heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death, according to the American Heart Association.

The AHA’s 2016 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update showed cardiovascular diseases claimed 801,000 lives in the US in 2013 – the last available data.

Of that group, heart disease killed more than 370,000 people.

Stroke took the lives of nearly 129,000 people.

A report from the American Heart Association revealed that cardiovascular disease is the top killer in the US. Heart disease and stroke were also found to be the top two killers worldwide

Dr Mark Creager, president of the AHA, said: ‘Statistics about cardiovascular disease and stroke, and particularly the metrics about death and the factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease are incredibly important.’

The report has been produced annually since 1958.

It uses the most-recent data available from the AHA, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other government sources.

The statistics help the AHA track the effectiveness of its efforts.

But despite the progress in reducing the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke, Dr Creager said the data is still too high.