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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1995 Stroke is ideally suited for prevention. It has a high prevalence, burden of illness, and economic cost, and safe and effective prevention measures. The estimated $30 billion that is being spent for stroke each year in the United States should not come as a surprise given the approximately 3 million stroke survivors and 400,000 to 500,000 new or ...
R, Tozer, I R, Hastie
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023 Background The COVID‐19 pandemic affected outpatient care delivery and patients' access to health care. However, no prior studies have documented telehealth use among patients with cardiovascular disease.
Jun Soo Lee +3 more
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Social Determinants of Health–Related Z Codes and Health Care Among Patients With Hypertension
AJPM Focus, 2023 Introduction: Tracking social needs can provide information on barriers to controlling hypertension and the need for wraparound services. No recent studies have examined ICD-10-CM social determinants of health–related Z codes (Z55–Z65) to indicate social
Jun Soo Lee, PhD +4 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background Amid recently rising heart failure (HF) death rates in the United States, we describe county‐level trends in HF mortality from 1999 to 2018 by racial/ethnic group and sex for ages 35 to 64 years and 65 years and older.
Adam S. Vaughan +4 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background The American Heart Association and Healthy People 2020 established objectives to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke death rates by 20% by the year 2020, with 2007 as the baseline year.
Adam S. Vaughan +4 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022 Background Amid stagnating declines in national cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, documenting trends in county‐level hypertension‐related CVD death rates can help activate local efforts prioritizing hypertension prevention, detection, and control ...
Adam S. Vaughan +4 more
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Stroke Prevention After Cryptogenic Stroke [PDF]
Current Cardiology Reports, 2021 Cryptogenic stroke represents a heterogenous but clinically important collection of stroke etiologies for which our understanding continues to grow. Here, we review our current knowledge and most recent recommendations on secondary prevention for common causes of cryptogenic stroke including paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, atrial cardiopathy, patent ...
Chinwe Ibeh, Mitchell S. V. Elkind
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Efficacy of antiplatelet therapy in secondary prevention following lacunar stroke:Pooled analysis of randomized trials [PDF]
, 2015 Background and Purpose: Lacunar stroke accounts for ≈25% of ischemic stroke, but optimal antiplatelet regimen to prevent stroke recurrence remains unclear.
Benavente, Oscar R. +5 more
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Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2023 Stroke has three main subtypes - ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The most common stroke subtype is ischemic stroke, making up about 88% of strokes. Many of these strokes may be prevented by lifestyle modifications.
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 Background This study describes the national surveillance and modeling methodology developed to monitor achievement of the Million Hearts initiative's aim of preventing 1 million acute myocardial infarctions, strokes, and other related cardiovascular ...
Matthew D. Ritchey +6 more
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