Up to 80% of strokes may be prevented. By having regular medical checkups and knowing your risk factors, you can make lifestyle changes to help prevent stroke - ASA deflection.

DEFLECTION, DEFLECTION, DEFLECTION! When you have NOTHING to get survivors 100% recovered, you try to change the subject. Why the fuck is stroke in your name if you're not trying to get stroke survivors recovered? Yeah, it is a BHAGs(Big Hairy Audacious Goal)  of 100% recovery. But leaders tackle such goals. Are you mice or leaders?

 Up to 80% of strokes may be prevented. By having regular medical checkups and knowing your risk factors, you can make lifestyle changes to help prevent stroke.

let’s talk about Risk Factors for Stroke
Risk factors are traits and lifestyle habits that increase
your chance of disease. Being aware of these risk
factors and knowing your personal risk is the first step in
preventing a stroke.
There are two types of risk factors: the kind not within
your control (uncontrollable) and the kind you can control,
treat and improve (controllable). By having regular
medical checkups and knowing your risk, you can focus
on what you can change and lower your risk of stroke.
What risk factors can I control, change or treat?
• High blood pressure. A leading risk factor for stroke and
a leading cause of stroke. Know your blood pressure
and have it regularly checked every year. Normal blood
pressure is below 120/80.
• Smoking and vaping. These can lead to damages within
the blood vessels, causing a stroke. Don’t smoke or vape
and avoid secondhand smoke.
• Diabetes. By impacting your body’s ability to make
or use insulin correctly, diabetes can cause glucose
(sugar) to build up in your blood. High glucose levels can
damage the body’s blood vessels, more than doubling
your risk of stroke.
• High cholesterol. High cholesterol increases the risk
of blocked arteries. If an artery leading to the brain
becomes blocked, it can result in a stroke.
• Physical inactivity and obesity. Being inactive, obese
or both can increase risk for heart disease and stroke.
Aim to reach and maintain a healthy weight and stay
physically active.
• Carotid or other artery disease. A stroke can occur
when a carotid artery, which leads to the brain, becomes
damaged or blocked by a fatty build up of plaque inside
the artery wall, limiting or stopping blood flow.
• Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Recognizing and
treating TIAs can reduce the risk of a major stroke. TIAs
produce stroke-like symptoms, but most have no lasting
effects. Recent studies confirm that most TIAs are
actually a stroke. Know the warning signs of a TIA and
seek emergency medical treatment immediately.
• Atrial fibrillation (AFib) or other heart disease. In AFib,
the heart’s upper chambers quiver rather than beat in
an organized, rhythmic way. This can cause the blood to
pool and clot, increasing the risk of stroke. AFib increases
risk of stroke five times. People with other types of heart
disease also have a higher risk of stroke.
• Certain blood disorders. A high red blood cell count
makes clots more likely, raising the risk of stroke. Sickle
cell anemia increases stroke risk because the “sickled”
cells stick to blood vessel walls and may block arteries.
• Excessive alcohol intake. Drinking an average of more
than one drink per day for women or more than two
drinks a day for men can increase your risk of a stroke.
Binge drinking can also lead to stroke.
• Illegal drug use. Drugs including cocaine, ecstasy,
amphetamines, and heroin are associated with an
increased risk of stroke.
• Sleep apnea. Sleep disordered breathing contributes
to risk of stroke. Sleep apnea increases your risk of
having a stroke. Likewise, sleep apnea is more prevalent
after a stroke.

Safety of the Mobile Stroke Unit: A Descriptive Review and Results of Radiation Monitoring

 Is this your way to deflect from the failure of mobile stroke units to get patients 100% recovered? Just like hospital ERs?

Safety of the Mobile Stroke Unit: A Descriptive Review and Results of Radiation Monitoring

No abstract.

 

Lifestyle, diet modifications decrease stroke risk in middle-aged women

Hope you can figure out the EXACT PROTOCOL to achieve this because it sounds like useless guidelines to me.  And if you get a stroke anyway YOU can be blamed for getting one. This is just a way to deflect blame from the stroke medical world for their complete failure in even trying to get survivors 100% recovered.

Lifestyle, diet modifications decrease stroke risk in middle-aged women

Jain P, et al. Stroke. 2020;doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.026761.

April 9, 2020

Goodarz Danaei

Sustained lifestyle modifications in middle-aged women reduced the 26-year risk for ischemic stroke and total stroke, according to a study published in Stroke.
The 26-year risk for total stroke was also reduced with sustained dietary modifications, according to the study.

“The proportion of strokes that can be prevented is higher among patients who are at higher risk of stroke,” Goodarz Danaei, ScD, Bernard Lown Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Healio. “For example, those who have type 2 diabetes or other risk factors (eg, hypertension, obesity, high serum lipids or history of coronary heart disease). Therefore, doctors should strongly encourage these patients to adopt healthier lifestyles.”
Researchers analyzed data from 59,727 women (mean age at baseline, 52 years; mean BMI, 24.5 kg/m²) from the Nurses’ Health Study who periodically completed questionnaires regarding physician-diagnosed stroke, diet and physical activity.
“It is almost impossible to conduct randomized trials to evaluate the effect of lifestyle on cardiovascular diseases such as stroke,” Danaei said in an interview. “Therefore, the best evidence should come from observational studies with high-quality information such as the Nurses’ Health Study. We also used advanced analytical methods that allow us to emulate the design and analysis of a behavioral intervention trial.”
Diet information was used to calculate usual intake of poultry, processed and unprocessed red meat, nuts, fruits and vegetables, refined grains, whole grains, alcohol and fish.
The risk for total stroke, hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke was estimated between 1986 and 2012 based on moderate to vigorous intensity exercise of at least 30 minutes per day, smoking cessation and BMI reduction by 5%. Researchers investigated several dietary strategies including eating at least one serving of nuts per day, eating three or more servings of fish per week and eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
With no lifestyle intervention, the estimated 26-year risk for total stroke was 4.7% (95% CI, 4.5-4.9), 2.5% for ischemic stroke (95% CI, 2.4-2.6) and 0.7% for hemorrhagic stroke (95% CI, 0.6-0.8).
The estimated 26-year risk for total stroke (3.5%; 95% CI, 2.6-4.3) and ischemic stroke (1.6%; 95% CI, 1.1-2.1) decreased with combined nondietary interventions including exercise, smoking cessation and weight loss. Estimated risk for hemorrhagic stroke was similar with most strategies except for an isolated strategy of an increased intake of fish (0.5%; 95% CI, 0.4-0.7).

New devices causing 'paradigm shift' in stroke care

There is nothing here that tells me they have done one goddamn thing to solve the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes.in the first week. This is all just deflection for all the failures in solving all the fucking problems in stroke. 

New devices causing 'paradigm shift' in stroke care

New devices called stent retrievers, which effectively reverse strokes, have revolutionized the treatment of certain stroke patients, according to an article in the journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics.

"Stent retrievers are a major advance in acute ischemic stroke care and will have significant impact on the evolution of stroke systems of care," according to the article by Loyola Medicine neurologists Rick Gill, MD and Michael J. Schneck, MD. Dr. Gill is the outgoing chief resident and Dr. Schneck is a professor in the Department of Neurology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Eighty-seven percent of strokes are ischemic, meaning they are caused by clots that block blood flow to a portion of the brain. In selected patients, stent retrievers can be used to remove such clots. Loyola used stent retrievers on 34 patients in 2015, and 21 patients during the first six months of 2016.
A stent retriever is a self-expanding mesh tube attached to a wire, which is guided through a catheter (thin tube). The endovascular specialist inserts the catheter in an artery in the groin and guides the catheter through various blood vessels all the way up to the brain.
Once the stent retriever reaches the blockage, the endovascular specialist deploys it. The device pushes the gelatinous blood clot against the wall of the blood vessel, immediately restoring blood flow. The stent retriever then is used to grab the clot, which is pulled out when the surgeon removes the catheter.
"With the advent of stent retriever devices, there has been a paradigm shift in the utilization of endovascular therapies for acute ischemic stroke," Drs. Gill and Schneck write. (Endovascular refers to catheter-based surgery.)
Drs. Gill and Schneck describe how the current generation of stent retrievers, including the TREVO and Solitaire devices, are a remarkable improvement over earlier devices such as MERCI and Penumbra that employed different technology. Studies of these earlier devices showed results that were equivocal at best. But more recent trials of stent retrievers consistently show the newer devices are clearly superior to the intravenous drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) alone in reducing disability from strokes.
The clot-busting drug tPA can restore blood flow and limit stroke damage, if it is given within 4.5 hours of the onset of the stroke and the clot is small enough. (If the patient is older than 80, the cutoff time is three hours.) But in many patients, tPA either would not be safe to take, or would not be sufficient by itself to restore blood flow. In such patients, stent retrievers often can be used to remove the clot.
Drs. Gill and Schneck foresee future device improvements that will do an even better job of restoring blood flow and increasing the number of patients who could benefit.
Stent retrievers also will affect where stroke patients are treated. Paramedics will play an important role in routing higher severity stroke patients, who could benefit from stent retrievers, to centers that have the capability to perform neuroendovascular procedures, Drs. Gill and Schneck write.

Explore further: New stent devices can limit stroke damage, says neurosurgeon

More information: Rick Gill et al, The use of stent retrievers in acute ischemic stroke, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics (2016). DOI: 10.1080/14737175.2016.1193007

Journal reference: Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics