Hospital team significantly reduced risk of further vascular events after 'mini strokes'

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) — Patients who had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), sometimes referred to as a "mini stroke," were much less likely to experience further vascular events in the first year if their care was co-ordinated by a special hospital team. That is the key finding from a study published in the November issue of the European Journal of Neurology.Researchers from the Department of Neurology at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark studied 306 patients admitted to the hospital...

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Poorer countries, those spending less on health care have more strokes, deaths

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) — Poorer countries and those that spend proportionately less money on health care have more stroke and stroke deaths than wealthier nations and those that allocate more to health care, according to new research in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Poorer countries also had a greater incidence of hemorrhagic stroke -- caused by a burst blood vessel bleeding in or near the brain -- and had more frequent onset at younger ages.Regardless of overall wealth,...

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