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OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital completed its 100th Amulet procedure, expanding stroke prevention options for patients with ...

Suffering a stroke can have devastating, life-changing consequences. But the good news is that most strokes can actually be prevented. Each year in the U.S., about 795,000 people suffer a stroke.

When these arteries become completely clogged or blood vessels burst, it can lead to a stroke, a condition that impacts nearly 800,000 people in the United States each year. Fortunately, what you ...

The American Stroke Association (ASA) has issued an updated guideline for primary stroke prevention. The first update in a decade, the 2024 Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke, replaces the ...

Mukul Sharma, Raed Joundi and Ashkan Shoamanesh discuss the causes of strokes alongside current and emerging approaches to ...

Untreated, it could have a big effect on your health.

Recurrent ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack are common problems in primary care, with stroke survivors averaging 10 outpatient visits per year. Risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, ...

The recently published results of the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) trial [1] showed that high-dose statin therapy could significantly reduce the risk of ...

Erin Adelekun was 38 when she had a stroke, just nine days after giving birth to her daughter in 2020. It all started with a headache, which had been about a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 when she was ...

Female stroke survivors who were older or married were also more likely to report missing prescribed doses than men, finds new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association An analysis of ...