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email article Evidence that mobile stroke units (MSUs) could provide better care than standard management by EMS was extended to seven U.S. metropolitan areas in the BEST-MSU study, providing greater impetus to examine their cost-effectiveness in justifying a path to reimbursement. Stroke patients transported in MSUs suffered significantly less disability measured on a utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at 90 days, the weighting reflecting low patient preference for disability requiring constant care over death. Moreover, patients were more likely to reach mRS 0-1, deemed comp...
E-Mail DALLAS, March 11, 2021 -- Stroke patients were nearly 50% more likely than heart attack patients to develop depression, and female stroke patients had a higher risk of depression than their male counterparts, according to two preliminary studies by the same research group to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2021. The virtual meeting is March 17-19, 2021 and is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. In what researchers described as one of the largest study of post-stro...
E-Mail DALLAS, March 11, 2021 -- African American women have a significantly increased risk of stroke and death during pregnancy and childbirth or in the period right after birth, compared to the risk of stroke among white women, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2021. The virtual meeting is March 17-19, 2021 and is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. "Each year, thousands of American women have a stroke or die from a stroke during preg...
E-Mail DALLAS, March 11, 2021 -- Black and Hispanic women ages 65-74 years old hospitalized with stroke had more severe strokes than their white counterparts, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference 2021. The virtual meeting is March 17-19, 2021 and is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. According to the American Heart Association, Black women have a higher rate of stroke (3.8%) when compared to white women (2.5%) of similar age, which could le...