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People who sleep poorly or don't get enough of it are a higher risk for heart disease and stroke, researchers have found. Emory University School of [...]

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Two or three drinks a day did not alter the risk except among women on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) who had an increased stroke risk compared with [...]

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Because the stroke risk associated with clinical AF or flutter is already well understood, they undertook an analysis that censored these patients once they [...]

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Scientists say moderate drinking can lead to 'successful ageing', and cut the risk of stroke. Results from US studies suggest concerns about the [...]

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Scientists suggest that both drugs and supplements compete for processing in the liver leading to an increase in stroke risk and risk of unwanted bleeding. [...]

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3 cause of death in the United States, it's important for us to consider low vitamin D as a possible risk factor for stroke at least among whites," Michos [...]

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Additionally, women who had six or less hours of sleep did not have an associated increased stroke risk, Dr. Alan Flint of the Harvard School of Public [...]

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Scientists suggest that moderate drinking can lead to 'successful ageing', and cut the risk of stroke, reports the Daily Mail . Two studies by researchers [...]

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showed patients taking the drug, rivaroxaban, had a 21% reduction in the risk of having a stroke compared with patients being treated with warfarin, [...]

Many factors can increase your risk of a stroke. A number of these factors can also increase your chances of having a heart attack. Stroke risk factors [...]

5 Apr 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Excess weight increases stroke risk, a new study including nearly 2.3 million people confirms. And the heavier a [...]

5 Nov 2010 Vitamin E did not significantly affect the risk of stroke overall. The study did not evaluate which doses of vitamin E produced which [...]

New research suggests that vitamin D deficiency does not boost stroke death rates among black patients, even though it appears to double the risk for whites. Th. [...]

Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the FDA has approved Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate capsules), an oral direct thrombin inhibitor, to reduce the risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation [...]

Research published in the journal Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine demonstrated that dehydration increases systolic blood viscosity by 9.3% and diastolic blood viscosity by 12.5%. The results are from a study of 12 healthy men who sat for 4 hours at a dry-bulb temperature of 23.0-23.5 ¡C [...]

Background: Stroke is a growing noncommunicable disease in Africa. Though stroke accounts for a substantial number of medical and neurological admissions in Nigerian hospitals, the specific impact of stroke on women has not been well [...]

Three of the top-selling supplements lower the INR and raise stroke risk when combined with warfarin: soy, multiherbal supplements, and coenzyme Q10, Strohecker says. The risk of bleeding is increased if you take the anticlotting [...]

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Intracranial atherosclerosis disease (ICAD) is the most common cause of stroke worldwide, and each year, approximately 60000 Americans experience intracranial atherosclerotic disease-related strokes. Risk of stroke recurrence due to [...]

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The research into stroke risk looked at 73450 women who were free of heart disease and cancer when they entered the study. They were followed from 1984 to 2006. Women who had up to one drink a day had a 20% reduction in stroke risk [...]

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Clot drug to help heart patients. Hundreds of thousands of heart patients would benefit from new type of blood thinning drug to cut their risk of stroke, say UK experts. more. BBC News ( 11/15/2010 8:04:23 AM -08:00 ) [...]

In addition to reducing weight, lowering sodium in the diet and exercising, potassium rich foods can aid in the reduction of high blood pressure. However, many Americans fall short of their daily potassium needs. According to a report released by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, more [...]

More than 2.5 million Americans live with irregular heartbeat, which increases the risk of stroke by four to five times and causes 15-20 percent of all blood-clot-related strokes. The disorder causes more than 11000 deaths in the U.S. [...]

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Women who sleep for at least 10 hours a night are at a 63 percent higher risk of stroke than the ones sleeping for 7 hours a night. Also, women who sleep for less than 6 hours were free of any such associated risk. [...]

Results Presented as a Late-Breaker at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Johnson Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Development, LLC ann. [...]