Stroke News

Patients who experienced a stroke and were treated by a mobile stroke unit were more likely to be treated within the first hour of symptom onset and more than twice as likely to be disability free at 90 days, a researcher reported.

Coordinated care intervention to help stroke and transient ischemic attack survivors from low-income areas meet CV goals.

Tracheal intubation-related major adverse events including CV instability in critically ill patients.

Among younger women with pregnancy-associated stroke, in-hospital mortality was higher in Black women compared with white women, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s virtual International Stroke Conference.

A biomarker panel with retinol binding protein 4, N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide and glial fibrillary acid protein discerned ischemic stroke from intracerebral hemorrhage with modest accuracy, researchers reported in Neurology.

Patients with suspected large vessel occlusion stroke transferred directly to the angiography suite at admission had better functional outcomes compared with those transferred to the CT suite, a researcher reported.

Stroke survivors may be more likely to attempt or die by suicide than people who have not had a stroke, according to a meta-analysis presented at the American Stroke Association’s virtual International Stroke Conference.

Social isolation appeared to have little direct impact on the risk for developing a first cardiac event or stroke, but greatly increased the risk that a first CV event would be fatal, researchers reported.

Pulmonary hypertension was associated with longer hospitalization and lower odds of routine discharge among patients with acute ischemic stroke, researchers reported.

From 1999 to 2018, Black adults in rural communities continuously experienced greater risk for death from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke compared with white adults, researchers reported.