Prior studies have described twofold increased stroke mortality in the Southeastern US (the 'stroke belt') and threefold increased stroke mortality along the coastal plains of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia (the 'stroke buckle').
Instead, Prempro increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer, and estrogen alone increased stroke and breast cancer risk.
As with our study of older women, hormone therapy increased stroke, venous thrombosis and breast cancer, and it decreased hip fracture.
Conversely, most patients with eccentric hypertrophy have a spheric left ventricle, increased stroke volume and low peripheral vascular resistance.
AIG also increased stroke volume index and left ventricular stroke work index at 48 and 72 h (p ≤ 0.01 for each, data not shown).
We found that pretreatment with Rhy significantly improved cardiac systolic dysfunction, increased stroke volume and cardiac output in mice challenged with LPS.
SEC in the left atrium has been linked to increased stroke risk, and when seen in the right heart, SEC has been correlated with increased risk of pulmonary embolism [52,53].
Anxiety and depression have both been linked to increased stroke risk, for example.
When the study participants were examined according to age, the researchers found that sleeping for more than eight hours a night increased stroke risk only for people who were at least 63 years old.
Diabetes, however, increased stroke risk more in men than in women.
Stratification according to the CHADS2 scheme showed increased stroke rates for women in all strata.
