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Black women as young as 24 years diagnosed with hypertension may have up to a threefold greater risk for stroke at midlife vs. women without hypertension, researchers reported.

Physical activity was only minimally associated with a reduced risk for cognitive decline or impairment. Even so, the finding was still significant from a population health perspective, according to researchers.

Tenecteplase IV therapy for individuals who suffered ischemic stroke was nonsuperior to placebo, according to research in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Adults with mild stroke had higher odds of maintaining similar levels of physical activity or being more active with greater resources available in their area, according to research presented at the International Stroke Conference.

Patients who are hospitalized with stroke-like symptoms, but do not experience a stroke, may yet develop PTSD at a higher rate than patients who actually had a stroke, a speaker reported.

The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to latozinemab, an investigational therapeutic designed to block sortilin and elevate progranulin to treat frontotemporal dementia with a progranulin gene mutation.

Individuals who suffered acute ischemic stroke in disadvantaged neighborhoods had twice the risk of poor recovery compared with those living in areas with improved conditions, according a speaker at the International Stroke Conference.

For individuals who suffer an ischemic stroke, IV administration of tenecteplase within a mobile stroke unit favorably compared with alteplase perfusion, according to preliminary data presented at the International Stroke Conference.

Anticoagulation with apixaban after cryptogenic stroke with evidence of atrial cardiopathy and no atrial fibrillation did not prevent recurrent stroke compared with aspirin, researchers reported.

For those with either acute ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage, risk of dementia was three times higher after the first year and remained elevated as many as 20 years after, a speaker said at the International Stroke Conference.