BACKGROUND We analyzed the effects of insulin therapy, age and gender on the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and cerebrovascular accident (CVA) according to glycemic control. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a prospective cohort study (Japan Cholesterol and Diabetes Mellitus Study) of type 2 diabetes patients (n = 4014) for 2 years. The primary endpoint was the onset of fatal/non-fatal I...

OBJECTIVE To examine differences in short- (28 days) and long-term (5 years) risk of death in patients hospitalised for the first time for various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) by country of birth and/or parental country of birth. DESIGN A nationwide prospective cohort of CVD patients. SETTINGS Entire Netherlands. PATIENTS 118 691 patients hospitalised for the first time for various CVDs ...

Stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is caused by a disturbance of the blood supply to the brain and an accruing loss of brain function. The first recorded observations were in 2455 BC and it has been studied intensely by ancient physicians throughout history. In the early medieval period, Ibn Sina (980-1025 AD) called stroke sekteh and described it extensively. Some of Ibn Sina's definitio...

Neuroplasticity is the functional recovery after a nerve injury which consists in reorganization of nervous tissue based on the formation of new connections between neurons and synthesis of new cells. This paper proposes new devices which open new ways of functional recovery of the upper limb in disabled people, whom functions were partially or totally lost by CVA (cerebrovascular accident), he...

OBJECTIVES The Behavioral Inattention Test (BIT) is a standardized assessment for unilateral visual neglect. It comprises six conventional and nine behavioral subtests. The purpose of this study was to add to the validation of the behavioral subtests. METHOD Forty Israeli subjects with right cerebrovascular accident (CVA), from both day center and hospital settings, were evaluated on three me...

Knowledge-based systems are widely used in health care and more recently in rehabilitation. The most complex and demanding task performed by physical therapists is the rehabilitation of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke patients. The repercussions of stroke are very subjective, and it can be very complex and demanding to assess and treat post-stroke patients. This research developed a pr...

Aim. To study the two-year survival rate of patients with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in different age groups. Material and methods . The outpatient part REGION-M registry included 684 assigned to City Polyclinic № 64 Moscow, discharged from F. I. Inozemtsev Clinical Hospital (Moscow) period January 1, 2012 April 30, 2017 a confirmed diagnosis stroke or transient ischemic attack. All were di...