Cerebrovascular Diseases

A Bay Area pharmaceutical firm has announced positive data from a phase 3 clinical trial evaluating Chenodal tablets to treat adults with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, an autosomal, recessive, progressive genetic disorder.

Assessing safety of lowering BP in acute stroke after successful mechanical thrombectomy.

Women with gestational diabetes have increased risks for overall and specific types of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, whether or not they go on to develop type 2 diabetes, according to study data published in The BMJ.

Diagnoses of cardiovascular issues plateaued during the COVID-19 pandemic, but diagnoses of cerebrovascular issues dropped sharply compared with pre-pandemic levels, per a population-based study published in Neurology.

Healio Neurology’s five most-viewed stories in November highlight the link between inflammatory diets and dementia risk, the role of influenza infection in Parkinson’s disease risk, and regulatory developments.

County-level stroke mortality occurring outside a stroke unit correlated primarily with demographics and health care and environmental factors, according to results from a retrospective, cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.