21, 2024 — Updated clinical recommendations, including lifestyle changes, prevention strategies and treatment options, to reduce the risk of a first stroke have been outlined in a new ...

The era of precision medicine has arrived and conveys tremendous potential, particularly for stroke neurology. The diagnosis of stroke, its underlying aetiology, theranostic strategies, recurrence ...

Read on to learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatment for strokes in the basilar artery. The brainstem coordinates movement and balance and plays a major role in sleep, digestion, swallowing ...

"So much of the effort to prevent stroke has focused on blood pressure treatment," said the study's lead author Dr. George Howard, an emeritus distinguished professor of biostatistics at the ...

If you've had a stroke, your healthcare team will closely monitor your heart condition and will also evaluate your heart health to ensure that you are getting the right treatment for any heart disease ...

11.5% of participants reported not taking their stroke prevention medications as prescribed. Women were more likely to report missing doses of cholesterol-lowering medications and antiplatelets ...

Study: Sex Differences in Nonadherence to Secondary Stroke Prevention Medications Among Patients With First‐Ever Ischemic Stroke. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock In a recent study ...

An analysis of more than 1,300 stroke survivors found that women were less likely than their male counterparts to take medications, such as cholesterol-lowering statins and blood thinning ...

Delaying the onset of high blood pressure may lower the risk of a stroke, new research suggests. The study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, found the longer ...