Stroke News

People who experience adverse pregnancy outcomes develop cerebrovascular disease at younger ages, with the earliest onset and greatest risk seen in those with multiple pregnancies affected by complications, researchers reported.

The 2020 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of non ST-elevation ACS may help clinicians determine the thrombotic risk categories of patients being considered for PCI, a speaker reported.

In a comparison of two cohorts, the rate of stroke was higher in East Asian adults than in white adults, though atrial fibrillation influenced the stroke rate equally in both groups, researchers reported at Heart Rhythm 2023.

Bayer announced the FDA has granted fast track designation for asundexian — a once-daily oral factor XIa inhibitor — for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Significant racial and ethnic inequities persist in all aspects of stroke care, yet interventions that adequately address social determinants of health and other related factors are lacking, according to a new scientific statement.

In a large Israeli cohort, adolescent hypertension was associated with a more than twofold increased risk for stroke by midlife, even after adjustment for BMI, baseline sociodemographic factors and diabetes.

SEATTLE — Providers treating people with type 2 diabetes should take a complication-centric approach for determining first-line pharmacotherapy, according to a consensus statement.

N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide level soon after acute MI may be prognostic of CV death or incident HF, independent of high-sensitivity troponin T, researchers reported.

Cognitive impairment is common among stroke survivors and cognition screenings should be part of a person’s multidisciplinary follow-up care, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Revisiting reasons for patient refusal or physician choice not to prescribe oral anticoagulation could improve use of anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation at increased risk, researchers reported.