New research from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan has found that regularly brushing your teeth alongside regular visits to the dentist could help prevent the risk of a stroke. The research team found that performing a deep clean on your teeth could vastly reduce the risk of getting atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), which […]
Drinking Green Tea And Coffee Could Reduce Stroke Risk
A new study has discovered that drinking green tea and coffee on a daily basis could help lower the risk of having a stroke. This is the only study to research the combined impact of green tea and coffee in connection with stroke risk on a big scale. The study followed 83,269 Japanese adults over […]
Antipsychotic Drugs Could Triple The Risk Of Stroke
Antipsychotic drugs kill around 1,800 patients in Britain every year with many more suffering serious side effects. Some care homes often see the medication as an easier way to calm dementia sufferers who are in distress. Recently new research shows that they should only be prescribed in small doses. Antipsychotic drugs have a strong sedative […]
New Device Can Quickly Spot A Stroke
A pair of goggles that measures eye movement has been used in a recent study to correctly diagnose a stroke in under one minute. The study will be published in April’s issue of the journal ‘Stroke’. The lead author of the study stated that this is the first study to accurately diagnose if a patient […]
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Could Aid Faster Stroke Recovery
A new study finds that triglyceride lipid emulsions rich in an omega-3 injected within a couple hours of an ischemic stroke can decrease brain tissue damage by 50% within mice. The results which were carried out by the Columbia University Medical Center suggest that the emulsions may be able to reduce some of the behavioural […]
New Surgical Procedure Could Help Stroke Victims
Research has shown that a new procedure to remove blood clots in brain tissue after a hemorrhagic stroke might reduce long-term disability. The study group was made up of 96 patients in total at 26 different hospitals who suffered from a bleeding stroke. Phase II of the study focused on 31 patients who were given […]
Anti-depressants Lead To Better Stroke Recovery
Findings from a new study suggests that stroke victims can aid their recovery with the help of anti-depressants. The Research from the Cochrane Library states that stroke patients can take advantage of the benefits even if they have not been diagnosed with depression. The study was made up of 52 cases which included 4,000 patients. […]
New Evidence In Stem Cell Stroke Treatment
Two studies which were published recently provide further evidence of the potential of stem cells to lessen the disabilities of a stroke. The first study which is from a journal called Cell Transplantation, clearly demonstrates the generation of new blood and restoring damaged blood vessels in the brain which has been damaged due to a […]
Meditation Can Lower Risk Of Stroke
A new study which was published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes has found that patients with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly over a 5 year period were at a 48% less risk of getting a stroke, heart attack in comparison with those who did not practice any meditation. People who were practising […]
Taking Multivitamins Show No Impact On Stroke Risk
A study which looked in to the link between taking multivitamins and reducing the risk of stroke, heart attack and other fatal diseases which affect the heart and arteries, does not show any impact according to researchers. The research from The Physicians Health Study II which analyzed the health of nearly 15,000 male physicians revealed […]