Strokes don’t just strike the middle aged and elderly. "It can happen at any age so everyone should know the signs and symptoms of stroke and what to do about it," said Brockington. At 28 Carolyn Roth thought she was healthy. But one day at the gym she developed an excruciating heada...
As they were putting me in it, I saw a couple of my elderly neighbors come out of their houses, concerned and asking if they could help. They are so much older than I am; I felt like our roles should have been reversed. I told the paramedics about my fear that I was having a ...
Stroke has recently emerged as a severe health risk among women, particularly elderly women. According to some estimates, the burden of stroke in the United States will increase in both men and women by 2020, with a magnified projected increase in women. One systematic...
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The incidence of stroke in young individuals has been showing an increasing trend. In such cases, atypical mechanisms of stroke should be considered. Here, we report a case of a 37-year-old healthy female who presented with complaints of right-sided atax
Multiple regression analysis revealed that the number of symptoms of stroke was associated with cognition (K-MMSE score) in the elderly after adjusting for age, sex, educational level, and SGDSK (脽 = -0.089, p < 0.0001, adjusted R2 = 0.384). Conclusions: These results suggest that the ...
Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of accelerometer-measured sedentary time and physical activity of varying intensity and duration with the risk of stroke in a national cohort of middle-aged and older women and men. We hypothesized that less time spent being ...
A study in a middle-aged and elderly individuals revealed that men had higher creatinine levels than women did and were at greater risk for kidney damage and stroke development [25]. In addition, nicotine can increase the severity of kidney damage [26]. The higher prevalence of smoking among...
Strokes in the vertebrobasilar territory are a diagnostic challenge because of the large number of clinical syndromes they can present with (Table 2).5 For example, brainstem ischaemia can lead to ‘crossed’ signs, while basilar ischaemia can result in bilateral hemiparesis, sensory loss, visual...
Hemorrhagic strokes can also be caused by cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a condition in which proteins build up along the blood vessel wall and increase the risk for bleeding.40Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is most often associated with hemorrhagic stroke in the elderly.41 ...