Three risk factors—high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and smoking—are more likely to cause severe strokes, meaning ...

Patients who suffered strokes, mini-strokes or temporary blindness had levels of "nanoplastic" particles in their necks 51 ...

The median score on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale was 3 (interquartile range, 2 to 6) (scores range from 0 to 42, with higher scores indicating greater neurologic deficit).

If people had all three unhealthy habits, their mental and physical health were much worse than if they had none, researchers ...

Nurses on the stroke/neurovascular unit at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSVMC) in Portland, OR, care for approximately 500 stroke patients per year. Nursing staff members used the ...

We wanted 80% of stroke patients to have a completed ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs. Participants were encouraged to be open ...

Hospitalizations for this sort of stroke have increased nearly ... an abstract of a small-scale study released Tuesday shows. Health News // 8 hours ago U.S. measles cases spike past 800 in ...

The Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) is a global measure of function after stroke, with scores of 0-2 indicating an ability to live independently. After receiving Kandu Health services for 90 days ...

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and a major cause of death both ...

The opening allows clots to bypass the lungs and travel to the brain, potentially causing a stroke. Figari had a particularly large PFO, a grade 4 on a scale of 0 to 5. Figari had a common ...