Stroke News

Patients with obesity and diabetes who underwent metabolic surgery may have to lose less weight to reduce the risk for major adverse CV events compared with those who did not undergo surgery, researchers found.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease had higher rates of stroke and lower rates of CAD and vascular disease risk factors, researchers found.

Acute stroke management metrics improved with use of an alarm clock in the CT room that indicated several target times up to therapy decision, researchers found.

Respiratory symptom severity served as the most significant indicator of in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19 who had a stroke, according to a systematic review published in Neurology.

Excess exposure to fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 µm or less may increase the risk for stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, researchers found.

As clinicians around the world rapidly transitioned from in-person to telehealth visits during the COVID-19 pandemic, it required managing many changes at once.

The landmark TAILOR-PCI trial showed encouraging evidence for genotype-guided antiplatelet therapy.

A new paper has questioned whether the 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol appropriately identifies younger high-risk patients as candidates for statin therapy.

A dyslipidemia guideline from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense provided recommendations on statin dosing, tests for predicting CVD risk, primary and secondary CVD prevention, nutrition and exercise.

Enlarged perivascular spaces within the basal ganglia represented a novel risk factor for intracranial hemorrhage among patients taking oral anticoagulants, according to a post hoc analysis of the CROMIS-2 (AF) study published in Neurology.