Several infections have been identified as possible stroke triggers, with urinary tract infections showing the strongest link with ischemic stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke. Previous research examined infections as triggers of stroke but were limited to the correlation of acute infections with ischemic stroke, a type of stroke… Continue reading Urinary Tract Infection And Stroke
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A Post-Hospital Risk for Stroke Patients
Patients who suffer an ischemic stroke, the most common kind, face an additional risk after being released from the hospital. If they have an infection, they are likelier to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days no matter how severe or mild their stroke was, according to new research. The study was published in… Continue reading A Post-Hospital Risk for Stroke Patients
Cash and Goal Setting Help Motivate Heart Patients to Take Healthy Steps
The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may have motivated ischemic heart disease patients to increase their exercise, according to a new clinical trial published in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Ischemic heart disease is the… Continue reading Cash and Goal Setting Help Motivate Heart Patients to Take Healthy Steps