Advances in Population Studies 2007

Advances in population studies 2007.

P opulation studies play important roles in assessing disparities and temporal changes in the burden of stroke, guiding interventional assessment in clinical trials, and describing risk factors that for ethical or design reasons cannot be addressed by clinical trials. Concerns regarding the impact of population shifts were heightened this year with the reports describing several disturbing tren...

Advances in stroke: population studies.

With ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke sharing many risk factors, one could presume a similar geographic pattern of stroke and IHD; however, Kim and Johnston described remarkable worldwide variations in disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) loss for both diseases.1 For stroke, much of Asia, eastern Europe, and Africa had DALY loss of 120/100 000 in contrast to North America, western Europ...

Advances in Stroke Advances in Population-Based Studies

C-Reactive Protein High levels of C-reactive protein have been associated with the risk of myocardial infarction, whereas the association with stroke remains controversial.1 The association between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)and stroke was examined in the multiethnic, stroke-free, community-based cohort study in Northern Manhattan.2 hsCRP measurements were available for 2240 sub...

Advances in stroke: Population studies 2013.

Advances in imaging 2007.

I maging continues to be a mainstay of stroke diagnosis, management, and investigation, and this was fully evident again in 2007. Stroke continues to command a substantial amount of attention from investigators from a wide variety of disciplines. A broad range of insights and innovations in imaging have occurred in the past year, and the space allotted here remains too small to capture the rang...