SAN DIEGO – After 6 months, Medtronic’s Reveal XT implant picked up atrial fibrillation in 8.6% of cryptogenic stroke patients. Standard monitoring found it in 1.4%, according to company data...
SAN DIEGO – Dr. Aneesh B. Singhal, Director of Neurology Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care, discusses highlights of this year’s Annual...
SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise reduced the risk of stroke by 12%-22% and appeared to offset some of the increased stroke risk from postmenopausal hormone therapy. We spoke to Sophia S. Wang, Ph.D.,...
SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise significantly reduced the risk of stroke in women and seemed to offset much but not all of the increased stroke risk in postmenopausal women on hormone therapy, a large...
Findings from a large study of women following their first pregnancy extend the postpartum period of heightened risk for thromboembolic events from the previously known 6 weeks to 12 weeks, leaving...
SAN DIEGO – The risk of thrombosis after giving birth remains significantly elevated for 12 weeks after delivery, twice as long as previously thought, an analysis of data on 1.7 million women...
The risk of thrombosis in women giving birth for the first time was 10- to 11-fold higher in the first 6 weeks postpartum, but in a report presented at the International Stroke Conference, Dr. Hooman...