Stroke News

Acute stroke case fatality decreased substantially between 2003 and 2017 at the same time that discharge to home or rehabilitation increased and long-term care admissions decreased, according to a Canadian study.

Significant therapeutic advancements have been achieved in the management of dyslipidemia. The ability to decrease LDL to previously unattainable levels, owing largely to the development of PCSK9 monoclonal antibodies, has illuminated two important lessons.

Ideal American Heart Association CV health scores were associated with substantially lower risks for stroke, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage and unspecified stroke, but not subarachnoid hemorrhage, researchers reported.

White matter hyperintensity volume, type and shape correlated with an increased risk for mortality and ischemic stroke among patients with manifest arterial disease, according to findings from the SMART-MR study published in Neurology.

Among adults without CVD or cancer at baseline, those who ate healthful plant-based diets had an approximately 10% reduced risk for stroke, researchers reported.

An adjustable clot retriever device for large vessel occlusion ischemic stroke was demonstrated to be both more effective and safer compared with prior data on other stent-retriever devices, a speaker reported.

Stroke survivors experienced a substantially increased risk for subsequent depression compared with those who had a myocardial infarction, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in Neurology.

Tempus announced the FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to its ECG analysis platform for the identification of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter, developed in collaboration with Geisinger.

The overall prevalence of new inpatient stroke in COVID-19 remained low, but age, male sex, hypertension, atrial fibrillation and diabetes conferred elevated risk, a speaker reported.

The triglyceride-lowering drug icosapent ethyl reduced stroke incidence in high-risk patients taking statins, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s virtual International Stroke Conference.