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Transcranial Doppler After Endovascular Treatment to Evaluate Collateral Status and Outcomes in Patients With Large‐Vessel Occlusion

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2022
Background Recent advances in endovascular therapy (EVT) have led to significant improvements in functional outcomes of patients with stroke. However, early neurological deterioration after EVT has remained a concerning issue.
Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Humayon Akhuanzada, Jason W. Tarpley, Afshin Borhani‐Haghighi, Kunal Agrawal, Royya Modir, Brett Meyer, Thomas M Hemmen, Dawn Meyer   +9 more
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Initiatives to Enhance Primary Care Delivery

Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2015
Objectives: Increasing demands on primary care providers have created a need for systems-level initiatives to improve primary care delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe and present outcomes for 2 such initiatives: the Pennsylvania Academy ...
Jan L. Losby, Marnie J. House, Thearis Osuji, Sarah Abood O’Dell, Alberta M. Mirambeau, Joanna Elmi, Eileen Chappelle, Dara F. Schlueter   +7 more
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Changes in blood pressure measurement prevalence among United States adults with hypertension before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Preventive Medicine Reports
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted health care, with particularly profound effects on persons with chronic conditions like hypertension.
Baffour Otchere, Adam S. Vaughan, LaTonia Richardson, Hilary K. Wall, Fátima Coronado   +4 more
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Exercise with a wearable hip-assist robot improved physical function and walking efficiency in older adults

Scientific Reports, 2023
Wearable assistive robotics has emerged as a promising technology to supplement or replace motor functions and to retrain people recovering from an injury or living with reduced mobility.
Su-Hyun Lee, Jihye Kim, Bokman Lim, Hwang-Jae Lee, Yun-Hee Kim   +4 more
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Changes in Cortical Activity during Preferred and Fast Speed Walking under Single- and Dual-Tasks in the Young-Old and Old-Old Elderly

Brain Sciences, 2021
In the elderly, walking while simultaneously engaging in other activities becomes more difficult. This study aimed to examine the changes in cortical activity during walking with aging.
Jinuk Kim, Gihyoun Lee, Jungsoo Lee, Yun-Hee Kim   +3 more
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Association between the Triglyceride-Glucose Index and the Risk of Large Artery Atherosclerotic Stroke

International Journal of Clinical Practice, 2022
The aim of this study is to evaluate the value of the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and the risk of large artery atherosclerotic (LAA) stroke. Information on general demographic and clinical characteristics, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA ...
Mingfei Jiang, Huan Wu, Huiping Zhang, Fan Su, Lei Cao, Xia Ren, Grace Tatenda, Jian Hu, Mingjia Cheng, Yufeng Wen   +9 more
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Stroke in China: advances and challenges in epidemiology, prevention, and management.

Lancet Neurology, 2019
With over 2 million new cases annually, stroke is associated with the highest disability-adjusted life-years lost of any disease in China. The burden is expected to increase further as a result of population ageing, an ongoing high prevalence of risk ...
Simiao Wu, Bo Wu, Ming Liu, Zhengming Chen, China Stroke Study Collaboration   +4 more
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Association of heart attack or stroke history with current mental health symptoms among adults in the USA: cross-sectional analyses of nationally representative samples

BMJ Open
Objectives This study uses nationally representative survey data from the USA to estimate the relationship between a history of heart attack or stroke with the prevalence of mental health symptoms.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Data from the 2019 and the
Yu Wang, Feijun Luo, Xue (Yidan) Zhang, Jun Soo Lee, Lisa M Pollack   +4 more
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Task-Related Hemodynamic Changes Induced by High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Chronic Stroke Patients: An Uncontrolled Pilot fNIRS Study

Brain Sciences, 2022
High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) has recently been proposed as a tDCS approach that can be used on a specific cortical region without causing undesirable stimulation effects. In this uncontrolled pilot study, the cortical
Heegoo Kim, Jinuk Kim, Gihyoun Lee, Jungsoo Lee, Yun-Hee Kim   +4 more
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Social Vulnerability Index and All-Cause Mortality After Acute Ischemic Stroke, Medicare Cohort 2020-2023

JACC: Advances
Background: Inequities in stroke outcomes have existed for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic amplified these inequities. Objectives: This study examined the association between social vulnerability and all-cause mortality among Medicare beneficiaries ...
Xin Tong, MPH, Susan A. Carlson, PhD, Elena V. Kuklina, MD, PhD, Fátima Coronado, MD, MPH, Quanhe Yang, PhD, Robert K. Merritt, MA   +5 more
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