Stroke News

New research found that healthy but severely obese patients who ate olive oil at least once a week had less platelet activation, which means their blood is less likely to clot -- which might help lower their risk of heart attack or stroke.

The researchers found that severely obese patients were 62 percent less likely to die afterward than patients of normal weight.

Actor Luke Perry, a star of Beverly Hills 90210 and Riverdale, died after he suffered a massive stroke.

The risk of another stroke caused by a blood clot was halved for patients who took the drug Pletal plus aspirin or clopidogrel, versus those who took aspirin or clopidogrel alone.

Researchers found that the risk of stroke for people over the age of 25 ranged from 8 percent to 39 percent, depending on where in the world they lived. The Chinese had the highest risk (with more than a 39 percent lifetime risk), followed by people in Central and Eastern Europe. The lowest risk was among those living in sub-Saharan Africa.

George Herbert Walker Bush, the nation's oldest living former president, has died at the age of 94.

A new study says that smoking marijuana could raise the risk for any stroke by 15 percent and 29 percent for an ischemic stroke -- the most common kind,

Black men who slept less than six hours a night were less likely to have a stroke than average sleepers, while white men who slept nine or more hours had a higher risk of , researchers say.

Women in a new study who followed a Mediterranean diet cut their risk for stroke, but the effect was not the same for men. The reason isn’t quite clear, researchers said.

Under the old blood pressure target of 140/90, the researchers estimated, treatment would be recommended for about 30 percent of U.S. stroke survivors. That translates to a little more than 1.4 million Americans.

The American Stroke Association reports that more than one-third of U.S. adults have had a transient ischemic attack/mini-stroke.

Older adults who like to bask in the heat of a sauna may be less likely to suffer a stroke, a new study suggests.

The researchers specifically looked to see which drug was better at restoring blood flow to clot-blocked blood vessels in the brain, and which drug resulted in patients having better outcomes.

On average, female stroke survivors reported more limitations in their day-to-day activities than male survivors did, according to a review of 22 studies

Stroke affects 55,000 more women than men each year in the United States. It's the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death in women, the researchers said in background notes.

This common type of birth defect -- known as patent foramen ovale (PFO) -- is a hole between the upper chambers of the heart that does not close after birth.

Fewer than 1 in 100 stroke survivors met all seven heart-health goals identified by the American Heart Association. And just 1 in 5 met four of those goals.

In the emergency procedure, called thrombectomy, doctors snake a catheter device through blood vessels to grab and remove the blockage.

For the study, researchers contacted 369 North Carolina stroke patients who were referred to rehabilitation either when they left the hospital or at a follow-up visit within 14 days.

This type of stroke is called spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage. It's potentially life-threatening and occurs when blood vessels on the surface of the brain rupture.

Prompt treatment of a mini-stroke could reduce the likelihood of having a full-blown stroke by roughly 80 percent, according to a new report.

More people survive these brain attacks, but the health problems that cause stroke aren't going away

High rates of obesity and diabetes are a major culprit, researchers say

Explanations for the disparity aren't clear

Ongoing care is essential to prevent recurrence, experts say