By J.P. Mohr, MS, MD, Dennis W. Choi, MD, PhD, James C. Grotta, MD, Bryce Weir, OC, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FRCSEd (Hon), and Philip A. Wolf, MD (Eds.)
First released in 1986 below the editorial path of Dr. Henry J.M. Barnett, this encyclopedic, but readable textual content has served as a ''one-stop shop'' for generations of practitioners looking authoritative insurance of the clinical and medical facets of stroke. The 4th variation encompasses a new editorial staff led through former co-editor Dr. J.P. Mohr, delivering up to date and multiplied assurance of epidemiology and prevention, medical manifestations, prognosis, particular scientific illnesses on the topic of stroke, pathophysiology, and clinical and surgical therapy.
- Explains the mechanisms of stroke and stroke-related diseases.
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003) in the pravastatin group. Other CHD endpoints were similarly reduced during the 5 years of follow-up. " It was estimated that 25 strokes would be prevented by treating 1000 such patients, 60 years of age or older, with pravastatin for 5 years. This estimate compares favorablywith the 27 fatal CHD events and 46 nonfatal MIS prevented in these patients, who are relatively young for stroke (mean age 59 f 9 years). " All of these trials enrolled patients with CHD, a small percentage of whom had sustained a cerebral infarct.
2-4). 83 in the four higher categ~ ries. ~ The mechanism by which an elevated diastolic blood pressure and a very low serum cholesterol level promote ICH has been suggested to be an alteration in the cell Fatal and non-fatal stroke Number at risk Placebo Atowastatin 5137 5168 5085 5128 5051 5093 5014 5054 4968 5022 4609 4669 3257 3257 FIGURE 2-5 Cumulative incidence for fatal and non-fatal stroke. HR, hazard ratio. 9 who have average or lowerthan-average cholesterol concentrations, in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Lipid Lowering Arm [ASCOT1808 LLA]: A multicentre randomisedcontrolled 1797 trial.
S2 However, the mechanism of stroke in oral contraceptive users is unclear. Cerebral infarction is more likely to be due to thrombotic disease than to atherosclerosis; it is known that clotting is enhanced by the oral contraceptive-induced increase in platelet aggregability and by the alteration of clotting factors to favor thrombogenesis. 40), and was lowest in younger women and in nonsmokers in whom blood pressure had been recently checked and found not to be elevated. 6). 3 Age-Adjusted Relative Risks (RRs) of Stroke (Fatal and Nonfatal Combined), by Daily Number of Cigarettes Consumed among Current Smokers* Etjent Total stroke Subarachnoid Current Smoker No.
