Intracranial stenosis is a common etiology for ischemic stroke. Due to limitations of imaging
studies, there are limited data on the prevalence of symptomatic and asymptomatic …

The consensus conference on intracranial atherosclerosis provides a comprehensive review
of the existing literature relevant to the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment …

Background and Purpose: Acute ischemic stroke may occur in patients with coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19), but risk factors, in-hospital events, and outcomes are not well studied …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of elevated blood pressure
in adult patients with acute stroke in the United States (US). METHODS: Patients with stroke …

Background and Purpose— The Joint National Committee on High Blood Pressure identified
a new category of blood pressure in adults termed prehypertension. Our objective was to …

Background and purpose On 11 March 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the
COVID-19 infection a pandemic. The risk of ischemic stroke may be higher in patients with …

OBJECTIVE: The goals of this study were to identify and quantify the presence of programmed
cell death (apoptosis) in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) among human subjects. Recent …

Background—Numerous case series have implicated cocaine use as a cause of both
myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke on the basis of the temporal relationship between drug use …

OBJECTIVE: Abnormal serum sodium levels (hyponatremia and hypernatremia) are frequently
observed during the acute period after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and …

Background: We performed this study to examine the association between egg consumption
and risk of cardiovascular diseases and mortality in a nationally representative cohort of …