...Eva Joëlle Haasdijk; Yasmin Sadigh; Gizem Yildirim; Ruben Dammers; Victor Volovici Background: Limb-shaking transient ischemic attack (LSTIA) is a rare neurological condition which presents with involuntary jerky movements of the arm or leg, often because of carotid stenosis or occlusion. Due...

... unbiased epidemiological studies to investigate the incidence of strokes and their long-term prognosis. Methods: The Normandy Stroke Study (NSS) is a prospective population-based study of all strokes and transient ischemic attacks in a large urban, suburban, and rural area in the Northwest of France...

...Kathleen Trömmer; Karel Kostev; Louis Jacob; Christian Tanislav Background: As chronic inflammatory diseases may be associated with an increased risk of vascular events, the aim of the present study was to assess the incidence of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in patients...

..., transient ischemic attack [TIA], and myocardial infarction [MI]) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Patients with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke, TIA, or MI documented anonymously in 1,262 general practices in Germany were included. We studied the differences between 2019 and 2020 (between April...

...Aayushi Garg; Kaustubh Limaye; Amir Shaban; Enrique C. Leira; Harold P. Adams Introduction: A diagnosis of transient ischemic attack (TIA) must be followed by prompt investigation and rapid initiation of measures to prevent stroke. Prior studies evaluating the risk of stroke after TIA were...

...Ann-Marie Surmava; Laura C. Maclagan; Ferhana Khan; Moira K. Kapral; Ruth E. Hall; Gabrielle deVeber Background: Reported incidence rates of pediatric stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) range widely. Treatment gaps are poorly characterized. We sought to evaluate in -Ontario, the incidence...

...W.T. Longstreth Jr.; Natalie C. Gasca; Rebecca F. Gottesman; John B. Pearce; Ralph L. Sacco Background: To describe adjudication of transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke in an observational study. Methods: We detail the process used to adjudicate TIA and stroke in the Multi-Ethnic Study...

...Yannick Béjot; Céline Brenière; Mathilde Graber; Lucie Garnier; Jérôme Durier; Christelle Blanc-Labarre; Benoit Delpont; Maurice Giroud Background: We aimed to evaluate the epidemiological features of transient ischemic attack (TIA). Methods: All TIAs were prospectively collected in Dijon, France...

...Alborz Tavosian; Jakob O. Ström; Peter Appelros Background and Purpose: Stroke incidence may be on the decline in high-income countries. There may have been a shift from severe forms of cerebrovascular disease to less severe forms. No study regarding transient ischemic attack (TIA) incidence has...

... higher education also protects against dementia after clinical stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) remains unknown. Methods: Within the population-based Rotterdam Study, 12,561 participants free of stroke, TIA and dementia were followed for occurrence of stroke, TIA and dementia. Across the levels...

... disease are sparse. We aimed to examine incidence, characteristics and severity of acute ischemic cerebrovascular disease in a well-defined population. Methods: All patients admitted with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or acute ischemic stroke from March 1, 2007, to February 29, 2008, with residence...

... Neurologia, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, e c Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal Key Words Emergency medical services Population-based studies Stroke awareness Transient ischemic attack Warning signs Abstract Background: Several...

... designed to detect stroke-free individuals. Its six symptom-related questions could potentially be used to screen for undiagnosed stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), but the sensitivity and specificity of just the six symptom-related questions are unknown. Methods: A research assistant administered...

... and transient ischemic attack (TIA) research. This study examines the accuracy of emergency department (ED) TIA diagnosis and final diagnostic coding after hospital admission. Methods: Using administrative datasets, we identified all patients with an ED TIA diagnosis (435.9; ICD-9) admitted to Liverpool...

...J. Díaz-Guzmán; F. Bermejo-Pareja; J. Benito-León; S. Vega; R. Gabriel; M.J. Medrano Objective: Our aim was to assess prevalence rates of cerebrovascular disease (CVD; stroke and transient ischemic attacks) according to age and gender in three populations in central Spain using data from...

...) versus placebo, with chemotherapy (gemcitabine/cisplatin, paclitaxel/carboplatin or mitoxantrone/prednisone). During 11,907 patient-months, 28 CIE (17 cerebral infarction, 11 transient ischemic attack) were diagnosed in 24 patients, all but 1 over 55 years. Neither prinomastat, platinum-based...

...Carlo Saitto; Carla Ancona; Danilo Fusco; Giampiero Vantaggiato; Massimo Arcà; Carlo A. Perucci We evaluated the disease management of transient ischemic attack in patients admitted to Lazio hospitals from July 1997 to June 1998. We assessed the effects of patient characteristics including chronic...

... in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study who had no baseline history of stroke. Of these participants, 578 reported prior positive transient ischemic attack/stroke symptoms, and 265 strokes occurred during the years 1987–1998. Adjusted for age, locale, sex, and race, persons with self-reported baseline symptoms...

...Janet M. Johnston; Valle Nazar-Stewart; Sheryl F. Kelsey; M. Ilyas Kamboh; Mary Ganguli To investigate whether the APOE*4 allele modified the relationship between cerebrovascular events and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), we collected evidence of previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA...

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