Guidelines for Preventing Another Stroke
The key to preventing another stroke is to work closely with your doctor to create a clear treatment plan with risk reduction goals. In this downloadable pdf, we’ve provided some information from the guidelines in plain English to help you do just that.
What You Can Do
Tips for keeping risk factors under control.
Converging Risk Factors
Understanding the connection between risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
Managing Medicines
Following your doctor's and pharmacist's orders after a stroke is crucial to controlling the conditions that could increase your risk of another stroke.
Specific Conditions
Diabetes and Stroke
A six-part series on diabetes and stroke from Stroke Connection magazine:
Diabetes & Stroke
Understanding how to manage these co-occurring conditions.
The Diabetes & CVD Connection
We talked to Dr. Prakash Deedwania about the relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Tips for Keeping on Track
Diabetes requires constant monitoring, especially for those who use insulin. In addition to medication, lifestyle prescriptions must be adhered to. Helpful tips on how to manage medications and lifestyle prescriptions.
Treating Diabetes with Diet and Exercise
Many people with diabetes do not have to take insulin. We talked to endocrinologist Dr. Dan Mihailescu, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Diabetes Education Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago about controlling diabetes through diet and exercise.
Online Resources for People with Diabetes
We have put together a list of online resources that have valuable information about diabetes and how to manage it. It is a good synopsis of the many elements of the Heart Of Diabetes program.
Caregivers and Diabetes
Caregivers of survivors with diabetes often find themselves doing double duty as they face the reality of keeping diabetes under control for their loved ones. We talked with cardiologist Mikhail Khosiborod of Kansas City about the most important issues faced by caregivers in this challenging situation.
In atrial fibrillation, the upper chambers of the heart (the atria) quiver instead of beating effectively to move blood into the ventricle. Your chances of having a stroke are five times higher if you have atrial fibrillation.
Blood Pressure and its Relationship to Stroke
High blood pressure is the leading modifiable risk factor in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. It also contributes to heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure and atherosclerosis (fatty buildups in arteries).
Understanding Sleep Apnea: Get a Good Night’s Sleep AND Reduce Your Risk
Dr. Henry Klar Yaggi at the Veterans Administration Connecticut Sleep Laboratory in West Haven, Connecticut helps us understand the dangers of sleep apnea, a risk factor for stroke. “What we found is that those who have obstructive sleep apnea have a two-fold increased risk of stroke, TIA or death from all causes,” said Dr. Yaggi, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. We also explain the ‘reverse Robin Hood syndrome’ where the healthy brain ‘steals’ blood from the injured part.
