BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Despite improved control of blood pressure during the last decades in the United States, a considerable proportion of treated hypertensives have not achieved target blood pressure levels. We estimated the proportion of strokes occurring among treated hypertensive patients that may be attributable to uncontrolled blood pressure. METHODS A population-based case-control st...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Understanding associations of carotid atherosclerosis with stroke subtypes may contribute to more effective prevention of stroke. METHODS Between 1987 and 1989, 13 560 men and women aged 45 to 64 years and free of clinical stroke took part in the first examination of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Incident strokes were ascertained by hospital surv...

Cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines and marijuana are the common recreational drugs associated with ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. The side-effects of acute cannabis intoxication include: (1) psychiatric behavioral abnormalities and increased risk of schizophrenia;[1] (2) cardiovascular tachycardia, supine hypertension, postural hypotension, myocardial infarction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation ...

Background: Thrombolytic therapy used in patients with acute myocardial infarction may increase the risk of stroke. Scant information is available from community-based studies. Summary of Report: Among 5,635 consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in Seattle and surrounding suburban King County, Washington, 116 (2.1%) experienced strokes during hospitalizatio...

In 48 patients dying within 15 days following a supra-tentorial cerebral infarct, the presence of hemorrhagic infarction at autopsy was related to a cardiac embolic cause of the infarct, and to the cause of death. Hemorrhagic infarcts were more common among patients dying from brain herniation than among those dying from a non-cerebral cause. Cardiac embolic strokes were more often hemorrhagic ...

background: although the risk factors of ischemic strokes are well defined, there is slight information about their relations with the etiologies of ischemic strokes. this study investigated the distribution of ischemic stroke risk factors and their connections to diverse etiologies of cerebrovascular attack (cva) and specific ischemic regions of brain. methods: in this cross sectional study , ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We aimed to examine the impact of fibrinogen concentrations on the incidence of stroke. METHODS We examined the association between fibrinogen and risk of total stroke and stroke subtypes in an 11-year prospective study of 4608 men and 7589 women aged 40 to 79 years with no history of stroke and/or coronary heart disease. The analysis was repeated, stratified by smoking...

Background: Thrombolytic therapy used in patients with acute myocardial infarction may increase the risk of stroke. Scant information is available from community-based studies. Summary of Report: Among 5,635 consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in Seattle and surrounding suburban King County, Washington, 116 (2.1%) experienced strokes during hospitalizatio...

BACKGROUND Thrombolytic therapy used in patients with acute myocardial infarction may increase the risk of stroke. Scant information is available from community-based studies. SUMMARY OF REPORT Among 5,635 consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in Seattle and surrounding suburban King County, Washington, 116 (2.1%) experienced strokes during hospitalizatio...