Latest Stroke articles from the BMJ

Uninterrupted anticoagulation during pacemaker or defibrillator surgery

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:00:36 +0100

Associations between the organisation of stroke services, process of care, and mortality in England: prospective cohort study

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:13:27 +0100

A good news tale of two diseases

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:50:02 +0100

Derivation and validation of QStroke score for predicting risk of ischaemic stroke in primary care and comparison with other risk scores: a prospective open cohort study

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:03:48 +0100

This paper concludes that QStroke provides a valid measure of absolute stroke risk in the general population of patients free of stroke or transient ischaemic attack, as shown by its performance in a separate validation cohort.

Metabolic alkalosis in a patient with dyspnoea

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:03:48 +0100

Measles and stroke show why healthcare must innovate

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:54:56 +0100

A pain in the neck type of headache

Mon, 29 April 2013 11:56:40 +0100

Hearing loss in adults

Thu, 25 April 2013 11:36:13 +0100

Hoarseness in a 79 year old woman

Thu, 25 April 2013 10:05:35 +0100

Do patients need to know they are terminally ill? Yes

Wed, 24 April 2013 11:51:53 +0100

CABG better than PCI for smokers and those with diabetes, PAD, or heart failure

Wed, 24 April 2013 10:36:35 +0100

Lower mortality for men taking perioperative β blockers

Wed, 24 April 2013 10:24:44 +0100

A treatable cause of shortness of breath

Mon, 15 April 2013 11:28:12 +0100

Learning from a crisis

Fri, 12 April 2013 11:48:51 +0100

“Famines induced by war and economic and social crises are humanitarian tragedies. But they are also ‘tragic experiments’ that shed light on the health effects of food deprivation.” José Merino considers a BMJ study that evaluated an unfortunate natural experiment: the economic crisis in Cuba in the early 1990s and how the ensuing food shortage altered the country’s burden of diabetes and heart disease.

Visual impairment

Wed, 10 April 2013 12:09:19 +0100

Reducing sodium and increasing potassium intake

Tue, 09 April 2013 03:06:59 +0100

Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses

Thu, 04 April 2013 11:56:59 +0100

Effect of increased potassium intake on cardiovascular risk factors and disease: systematic review and meta-analyses

Thu, 04 April 2013 11:56:59 +0100

This systematic review and meta-analyses provide the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the large body of evidence that increasing potassium intake reduces blood pressure in adults and that an inverse relation exists between potassium intake and incident stroke.

Chelation therapy may improve cardiovascular health

Wed, 03 April 2013 10:36:39 +0100

Vasectomy

Tue, 02 April 2013 11:30:39 +0100

A 40 year old man attends his GP surgery with his 37 year old wife to discuss long term contraceptive options. They have both considered other contraceptive options and have decided on vasectomy. The latest in our series of occasional articles on common problems in primary care explains what should be covered in the consultation.