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Some treatments or preventive therapies used to manage intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH) - also known as bleeding strokes - are not as effective as previously believed. That's according to the new American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guideline for caring for people with spontaneous ICH, published on May 17 in the association’s Stroke journal. Guidelines detail the latest, [...]

Health screening and genetic tests might identify more than one million US adults who carry a gene for familial hypercholesterolemia, a common genetic disorder that causes elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol which may lead to premature heart attack or stroke. That's according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, [...]

The Dancing on Ice winner and stroke survivor is the first celebrity ambassador for Emilia Clarke's change-making charity

Levels of bad cholesterol rise during menopause, and 10 per cent of this increase is due to shifts in sex hormones. That’s the finding of research published on May 13 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Women usually undergo menopause at the age of 48 [...]

Vascular diseases - such as stroke - are public enemy number one: the leading killers worldwide, accounting for nearly a third of all human deaths on the planet. Continuous monitoring of haemodynamics – blood flow through the vascular system – can improve treatments and patient outcomes. But deadly conditions like hypertension and atherosclerosis occur in [...]

New research examines how cavefish - surface-dwelling river fish that flooded into underground cave systems over 100,000 years ago - developed unique metabolic adaptations to survive in nutrient-scarce environments. The study, led by Jaya Krishnan, PhD, a senior research associate in the lab of Nicolas Rohner from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, was published online [...]

More than half of Brits don’t know that stroke is the fourth biggest killer in the UK, according to new research by the Stroke Association. The charity has released the survey findings as it calls for vital support to fund more research into the devastating condition. In April it surveyed 2,005 members of the public and [...]

Nearly 12 million people worldwide survive a stroke every year, and half of them are left with at least some limits on the use of their hands. Various portable, robotic systems as well as human-machine interfaces have been developed over the last few years to address this problem, yet they are typically too complex or [...]

Women who experience complications related to high blood pressure - also known as hypertension - during pregnancy have a 63 per cent increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. That's according to research funded by the United States' National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. While hypertensive pregnancy [...]

A new neuron study has prompted scientists to reconsider a once-popular yet controversial idea in stroke research. Neuroscientists believed that, in the aftermath of a stroke, calming overexcited neurons might prevent them from releasing a toxic molecule that can kill neurons already damaged by lack of oxygen. This idea was supported by studies in cells [...]