Does cholesterol lowering prevent stroke?

Does lowering blood pressure prevent recurrent stroke?

Question In patients with a history of stroke or transient ischaemic attack, can further stroke be prevented by lowering blood pressure, even when it is not elevated? Commentary Rationale for the trial About one in five stroke survivors suffer another stroke in the five years after the initial incident. 1 Blood pressure is related in a continuous manner to the risk of an initial stroke, but man...

Cholesterol lowering, nutrition and stroke prevention.

carotid stenosis 16,17 , were reduced by that approach from 12.6% to 3.7% of patients 15. More importantly, the two-year risk of stroke declined from 8.8% to 1%, and the two-year risk of myocardial infarction declined from 7.7% to 1% 15. There are some problems with high-dose statins, including aggravation of diabetes 18 , and myopathy. It is likely that both these problems are due to mitochond...

Lowering blood pressure to prevent myocardial infarction and stroke

Homocysteine-lowering therapy did not prevent stroke recurrence.

P a t i e n t s 3680 patients who were ≥ 35 years of age (mean age 66 y, 63% men) and had nondisabling ischemic stroke and elevated total homocysteine (tHcy) levels. Exclusion criteria included embolic stroke, other major neurologic illness, life expectancy < 2 years, need for dialysis, and untreated anemia or vitamin B12 deficiency. Follow-up was 92%. I n t e r v e n t i o n Patients were allo...

CHOLESTEROL LOWERING EFFECT OF RHEUM RIBS IN HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC RABBITS

The effects of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Rheum ribs L. (RR) of the family polygonaceae was studied on serum cholesterol concentration in rabbits. To induce hypercholesterolemia, 0.5 g/kg/day of pure cholesterol powder was given orally to each rabbit for two weeks then cholesterol was halved and each group of animals was treated with a different regimen for another two weeks. Both t...