Cardiovascular Health and Stroke Strategic Clinical Network

Highlights From the 2017 Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Clinical Symposium

T he Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Clinical Symposium had a successful program at the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) 2017 Scientific Sessions. Since its inception, the goal of the symposium is to disseminate knowledge on cardiovascular and stroke care as well as provide clinical nurses and advance practice nurses with evidence-based advancements in cardiac and stroke nursing science. ...

National Collaborative Network on Applied Clinical Neuroscience in Iran Justifications, Limitation, Possible Architectures, Priorities, and Strategic Plans

Stroke mimics in patients with clinical signs of stroke

Background: Stroke mimic is a major diagnostic challenge and may be difficult to distinguish from real strokes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative frequency of stroke mimics in patients with clinical signs of stroke. Methods: In this cross sectional-study, the medical records of 1985 patients with stroke admitted to Poursina Hospital were enrolled using the census technique. ...

Addition of 24-Hour Heart Rate Variability Parameters to the Cardiovascular Health Study Stroke Risk Score and Prediction of Incident Stroke: The Cardiovascular Health Study

OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine whether Holter-based parameters of heart rate variability (HRV) are independently associated with incident heart failure among older adults in the CHS (Cardiovascular Health Study) as evidenced by an improvement in the predictive power of the Health Aging and Body Composition Heart Failure (Health ABC) score. BACKGROUND Abnormal HRV, a marker of auton...

Strategic Social Network Analysis

How can individuals and communities protect their privacy against social network analysis tools? How do criminals or terrorists organizations evade detection by such tools? Under which conditions can these tools be made strategy proof? These fundamental questions have attracted little attention in the literature to date, as most social network analysis tools are built around the assumption that...