Treating high blood pressure in stroke survivors more aggressively, could cut deaths by one-third, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart... Brainomix secures £7m investment to tackle strokes with AI 3 April 2018 Brainomix, a medical imaging company using artificial ...
Annually, more than half a million individuals in the USA have a first cerebrovascular accident. In 1990, cardiovascular disease accounted for more than 14 million deaths in a population of 5.3 billion or 29% of the world’s 50 million deaths. Of these, 6.3 million deaths were due to CHD ...
Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. In 2004, strokestroke and cerebrovascular disease were responsible for 5.7 million deaths, or 9.7% of all deaths globally and 4.2% of all years of lif
According to the American Heart Association, the incidence of new or recurrent stroke in the USA is about 800 000 per year, which averages to someone having a stroke every 40 seconds. In China, the incidence of new stroke is over two million and is one of the leading causes of mortality...
Survival models Kaplan–Meier models show that treatment with PVA is associated with reductions in both stroke and heart failure events, as well as deaths in a hospital setting. In the matched PVA versus general AF cohorts, all p-values for statistical significance of treatment cohort are <...
borderline evidence suggested that risk adjusted mortality at 90 days declined overall; a significant decline in mortality was seen among patients treated at a hyperacute stroke unit (difference-in-differences -1.8% (95% confidence interval -3.4 to -0.2)), indicating 69 fewer deaths per year. A...
5. Seventy percent of strokes and 80–85% of stroke-related disability and deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries2,3,4,5. The outcome of stroke mainly depends on the presence and severity of post stroke complications6. Stroke associated pneumonia (SAP) complicates 5–44% of all...
SCIENTIFIC DATA | 5:180011 | DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.11 1 www.nature.com/sdata/ Background & Summary Approximately 795,000 people in the United States suffer from a stroke every year, resulting in nearly 133,000 deaths1. In addition, up to 2/3 of stroke survivors experience long-term ...
In such countries, the overall incidence of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke has risen over the last decade to 85–94 per 100,000, but is much higher (1151–1216 per 100,000) in people >75 years old. Moreover, 85% of all stroke deaths occur in low-income countries, which also ...
and is of particular concern for undocumented immigrants attempting to enter the United States along its southern borders. In Pima County, Arizona, alone there are over 100 heat-related deaths per year, and the risk of death has been demonstrated to increase predictably with rises in the ambient...