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Strokes are one of the leading causes of death and disability and there is one potential early indicator that people should ...

Many people who experience a transient ischemic attack will go on to have a stroke within 90 days. Here are the red flags.

A neurological assessment is most commonly based on both subjective and objective data. Often there are no objective findings by the time the patient with TIA is seen by a healthcare professional ...

Most signs of a stroke come on suddenly and symptoms like speech slurring can appear more obvious - but not all indicators ...

AFib is the most common type of irregular heart rhythm in the U.S., and blood thinners, also known as anti-clotting ...

In the first large trial of its kind, the anti-clotting medication rivaroxaban did not lower the risk of cognitive decline ...

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Left atrial appendage occlusion vs continuation of oral anticoagulation therapy alone is linked to reduced ischemic stroke risk in select patients with nonvalvular AF.

Risk factors for stroke include old age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking and atrial fibrillation.

Each year in the United States 200,000 500,00bstract: 500,000 people have a transient ischemic attack (TIA). These episodes of brief neurologic deficits were thought to be fairly benign ...

So what exactly is a warning stroke? Medically, it’s referred to as a transient ischemic attack and causes “sudden-onset ...