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Cluster randomized trial in the general practice research database: 2. Secondary prevention after first stroke (eCRT study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate methods for conducting pragmatic cluster randomized trials in a primary care electronic database.
Wolfe Charles   +34 more
core   +1 more source

Stroke Prevention

open access: yesDelaware 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Nutrition and Stroke Prevention [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 2006
Nutrition is much more important in prevention of stroke than is appreciated by most physicians. The powerful effects of statin drugs in lowering the levels of fasting cholesterol, combined with an unbalanced focus on fasting lipids (as opposed to postprandial fat and oxidative stress), have led many physicians and patients to believe that
Marc Fisher   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Inflammation and Stroke Risk: A New Target for Prevention.

open access: yesStroke, 2021
New therapeutic approaches are required for secondary prevention of residual vascular risk after stroke. Diverse sources of evidence support a causal role for inflammation in the pathogenesis of stroke.
P. Kelly, R. Lemmens, G. Tsivgoulis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interventions Targeting Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Stroke Prevention and Treatment

open access: yesStroke, 2020
Systemic racism is a public health crisis. Systemic racism and racial/ethnic injustice produce racial/ethnic disparities in health care and health.
D. Levine   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global and regional burden of first-ever ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke during 1990-2010 : findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Background: The burden of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke varies between regions and over time. With differences in prognosis, prevalence of risk factors, and treatment strategies, knowledge of stroke ...
Dis, GB   +102 more
core   +1 more source

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2018 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association

open access: yesCirculation, 2018
Each chapter listed in the Table of Contents (see next page) is a hyperlink to that chapter. The reader clicks the chapter name to access that chapter. Each chapter listed here is a hyperlink.
E. Benjamin   +50 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of Triflusal and Clopidogrel on the Secondary Prevention of Stroke Based on Cytochrome P450 2C19 Genotyping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To compare the efficacy and safety of antiplatelet agents for the secondary prevention of ischemic stroke based on cytochrome P450 2C19 (CYP2C19) polymorphisms.
김윤남   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Stroke Prevention With the PCSK9 (Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin-Kexin Type 9) Inhibitor Evolocumab Added to Statin in High-Risk Patients With Stable Atherosclerosis

open access: yesStroke, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background and Purpose— The PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin-kexin type 9) monoclonal antibody evolocumab lowered LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol by 59% to 0.8 (0.5–1.2) mmol/L and ...
R. Giugliano   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stroke Prevention [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 2020
In 44 years of practicing stroke prevention, I have learned many lessons; in this article, I hope to impart some of them. Three areas of my research are discussed. Controlling resistant hypertension is markedly improved by physiologically individualized therapy based on renin/aldosterone phenotyping; this is particularly important in black patients ...
openaire   +4 more sources

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