According to a new study from the US, the rate of ischemic strokes (ones caused by a blood clot to the brain as opposed to hemorrhagic strokes which aer due to burst blood vessels in the brain) are increasing among a group you don’t ordinarily associate with strokes, namely women during their pregnancies or in […]
A study just published in the journal, Circulation, is worrisome news for anyone who loves their diet drinks. In this study of over 80,000 post-menopausal women, regular consumption of diet drinks (defined as 2 or more diet drinks a day) was linked to a significantly increased risk of strokes. Why? Could be something in the […]
According to results from the PESA CNIC- Santander Study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, both not getting enough sleep (less than 6 hours a night on average in this Spanish study) and suffering through frequently-disrupted sleep (in which a person wakes up several times a night) are linked to a […]
Since this is being posted at the start of a new year, when many people have likely resolved to make some healthy changes to their lives, I think it may also be a good time to point out that according to many good studies and surveys, many chronic illnesses that are generally thought of as […]
The debate about shingles vaccines has just been re-ignited with a study that compared 23,000 people who got shingles with 23,000 who didn’t. And the study concluded that those people who did get shingles were significantly more likely to develop a stroke, heart attack, or another heart problem. This risk was highest for the first […]