Deans' stroke musings: Dependence of seasonal dynamics of hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes on the climate of a region: A meta-analysis

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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.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Dependence of seasonal dynamics of hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes on the climate of a region: A meta-analysis

This leaves me with no useful information to help survivors recover.

Dependence of seasonal dynamics of hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes on the climate of a region: A meta-analysis

NV Kuzmenko, MM Galagudza

First Published April 13, 2021 Review Article Find in PubMed

Abstract

Background

Cardiovascular events occur more often in winter than in summer; however, the dependence of strokes on various meteorological factors remains unclear.

Aims

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the dependence of the circannual dynamics of hospitalizations for hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke on seasonal fluctuations in meteorological factors.

Summary of review and conclusions

For our meta-analysis, we selected 20 and 26 publications examining the seasonal dynamics of hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke, respectively . The meta-analysis showed that hemorrhagic stroke is less likely to occur in summer than in other seasons and does not depend on a region’s climate. The seasonal dynamics of ischemic stroke are not clearly expressed and are determined by the characteristics of a region’s climate. In a climate without pronounced seasonal dynamics of atmospheric pressure and in wet winters, the vector of ischemic stroke incidents will not be expressed or slightly shifted toward winter. Low atmospheric pressure in summer is associated with an increased likelihood of ischemic stroke during this season compared to winter. There was also a relation between ischemic stroke risk with high relative humidity and a siificant decrease in ρO₂ in summer, but there is not enough evidence regarding this association. We did not reveal dependence of the seasonal dynamics of strokes on the amplitude of annual fluctuations in air temperature.

Keywords Ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, season, meteorological factors, climate