The prevention of stroke /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton [Fla.] :
Parthenon Pub. Group,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Stroke incidence, mortality, and prevalence
- 'Nonmodifiable' risk factors for stroke: age, race, sex, and geography
- Modifiable risk factors for stroke: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, lipids, tobacco use, physical inactivity, and alcohol
- Cardiac disease and risk of ischemic stroke
- Inflammation, infection and homocysteine in artherosclerosis
- Stroke in sickle cell
- Oral contraception and postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy
- Genetics and stroke
- Markers of subclinical vascular disease and stroke
- Community mass and high risk strategies
- Stroke prevention in managed care: a five-dimensional health improvement model
- National, state and local opportunities for stroke prevention
- Quality improvement in stroke prevention
- Gaps in professional and community knowledge about stroke prevention and treatment
- Stroke and public policy: the role of stroke advocacy groups
- Hypertension treatment
- Hyperlipidemia and diabetes mellitus
- Ethanol consumption and physical inactivity
- Antiplatelet therapies for prevention of first and recurrent stroke
- Carotid endarterectomy for symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis
- Endovascular approaches to stroke prevention: thrombolysis, angioplasty/stenting, aneurysm coiling, and treatment of intracerebral vasospasm
- Pros and cons of screening for and ablating asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms
- Closing remarks: on stroke prevention guidelines, organization of care and future perspectives.