Science news articles about 'stroke rates'

... married to former smokers had nearly the same stroke risk as never-smokers married to never ... differences, where NHANES participants are younger and stroke rates are lower than in HRS. Because nonsmokers ...

... trial showed a more than 90-percent reduction in the stroke rate of children with sickle cell disease ... Since the STOP trial, the current study found the rate of TCD screening among children with sickle ...

... . Scientists looked at whether patients had another stroke within six, 12 and 24 hours after ... 24 hours of a minor stroke," said Rothwell. "We found a second stroke rate of about 5 percent, with half ...

... than previously reported. Most studies rely on diagnostic codes for billing data to assess stroke rates, but this study also considered records of head imaging -- which revealed additional strokes. ...

... across the United States, which is looking for possible reasons for a higher-than-average stroke rate in the southeastern U.S. One presentation at the ATS session will detail a pilot test project ...

... of Neurosurgery/Professor of Radiology and Director of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center, at the State University of New York at ... of 0.8%, low death/stroke rate of 2.0% and low major adverse event ( ...

... being made in reducing deaths from heart disease and stroke, rates remain high for many of the risk factors that ... aggressive goal to reduce coronary heart disease, stroke – the No. 1 and No. 3 killers ...

... . However, a recent report showing higher stroke rates among women than men in a sample ... Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues investigated trends in the rate of in-hospital deaths following heart attack ...

... fewer deaths from heart disease. Indeed, results showed that in some women, an actual increase in heart disease and stroke rates occurred, although, bone fractures declined. The ...