BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke incidence rates are in flux worldwide because of evolving risk factor prevalence, risk factor control, and population aging. Adelaide Stroke Incidence Study was performed to determine the incidence of strokes and stroke subtypes in a relatively elderly population of 148 000 people in the Western suburbs of Adelaide. METHODS All suspected strokes were identified a...

Abstract Objectives Mood disorders and strokes are often comorbid, their health toll worldwide is huge. This study characterizes prognostic etiological roles of mood in stroke. Methods We tested if genetic susceptibilities for could predict future using the Malmö Diet Cancer cohort (24 631 individuals). Additionally, Mendelian randomization was employed to further examine causality summary stat...

Atrial fibrillation is an identified risk factor for ischemic strokes. Thus, the dynamics of heart rate under fibrillation might provide a useful predictor for strokes. The complex, nonlinear and multiscale nature of the heart rate calls for the use of powerful signal processing techniques. We explored the application of a novel tool, the scattering transform, to discriminate and predict ischem...

Background: Among different mechanisms, oxidative stress has a possible role in neural injury in cerebrovascular events. Objectives: Assessment the oxidants-antioxidants imbalance in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Materials and Methods: Serum level of malondialdehyde, the main marker of lipid peroxidation, and total antioxidant capacity were measured in a group of 48 stroke patients consis...

OBJECTIVES To show that echocardiographic left atrial enlargement (Echo-LAE) and electrocardiographic left atrial abnormalities (ECG-LAA) may be probable new risk factors for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. METHODS This descriptive prospective case study included 140 CT or MRI-confirmed hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke patients, who were admitted to Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq from...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Basic stroke features are hardly known in sub-Saharan countries, and no data are available in Senegal. METHODS We performed a retrospective hospital-based study in Dakar, Senegal, to assess risk factors and etiology of stroke. Patients were recruited from January 1, 2003, to July 31, 2004, at the Hôpital Principal, Dakar. Strokes had to be ascertained by computed tomogr...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...