Science news articles about 'silent strokes'

... Among patients who displayed no symptoms of stroke, 10.7 percent had SCIs on routine ... AF would reduce the population burden of silent stroke, researchers said. The study also found that high systolic ...

... the study 7.8 percent of the participants had the silent lacunar infarctions, small areas of damage to ... 1.6 percent of the participants had developed "silent" strokes. People with high blood pressure ...

A study has found that ‘silent’ strokes, which cause brain damage without obvious symptoms, are common in people over 60.

... sickle cell anemia who previously suffered a silent stroke; her hematologist, Michael DeBaun ... flow speed and therefore a higher risk for stroke. A retrospective analysis of the TCD measurements in 169 ...

... therapy was not linked to an increase in volumes of small vascular lesions in the brain or "silent strokes" that are often the first sign of cerebrovascular disease. "This was not what we expected to ...