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STAREE randomised 9,971 Australians aged 70 and over to atorvastatin or placebo. Cardiovascular events fell by 30%. Death, dementia and persistent disability, taken together, did not move.
Guidelines have hedged on anticoagulation for people with one stroke risk factor. SINGLE-AF randomised 1,803 patients in South Korea, and the events it counted were very few in both arms.
Comparing US adults vaccinated just before and just after the changeover from the live to the recombinant shingles vaccine, researchers found a 9% lower cardiovascular burden over seven years.
Global mean intake was 4,278 mg a day in 2021 against a recommended limit under 2,000. A week of low-sodium eating moved blood pressure in most people; a five-year trial of salt substitute cut strokes.
A meta-analysis of 45 cohorts found risk rising steadily with every 10 beats per minute. A study of 92,457 wearable users found one person's normal can differ from another's by 70 beats.
Stroke is the world's second-leading cause of death and third-leading cause of disability. The new resolution asks countries to build stroke-ready emergency systems, not just treat risk factors.
Pooled data across 38 studies found higher coffee intake linked to a higher risk of heart attack — but a lower risk of stroke and irregular heartbeat, with a separate benefit for people with high blood pressure.
The STABLED trial randomized 331 atrial fibrillation patients with a recent stroke to ablation plus anticoagulation or anticoagulation alone. The two groups ended up nearly identical.
In 2,286 patients with sleep apnea undergoing major surgery, a measure of how deeply and how long oxygen fell — not the apnea-hypopnea index — tracked 30-day cardiovascular events and death.
Emergency restrictions came into force on 13 December when the index passed 450. The more telling number is how many days the city has now spent in a category that was meant to be exceptional.
Age-standardised disability-adjusted life-years fell 12.6% since 2010, but the raw total rose 6.1% to 2.80 billion. Anxiety, depression and diabetes rose fastest even after adjusting for ageing.