The impact of sex and gender on stroke

KM Rexrode, TE Madsen, AYX Yu, C Carcel… - Circulation …, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Women face a disproportionate burden of stroke mortality and disability. Biologic sex and
sociocultural gender both contribute to differences in stroke risk factors, assessment …

Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis, blood pressure goals, and pharmacotherapy: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

VD Garovic, R Dechend, T Easterling… - …, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) remain one of the major causes of pregnancy-
related maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Affected women are also at …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in ischemic stroke research and therapies

D Barthels, H Das - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2020 - Elsevier
With more than 795,000 cases occurring every year, stroke has become a major problem in
the United States across all demographics. Stroke is the leading cause of long-term …

Hypertension in pregnancy: Pathophysiology and treatment

S Braunthal, A Brateanu - SAGE open medicine, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, an umbrella term that includes preexisting and
gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia, complicate up to 10% of …

Hypertension Canada's 2018 guidelines for the management of hypertension in pregnancy

S Butalia, F Audibert, AM Côté, T Firoz… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract We present Hypertension Canada's inaugural evidence-based Canadian
recommendations for the management of hypertension in pregnancy. Hypertension in …

The incidence of pregnancy-related stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RH Swartz, ML Cayley, N Foley… - … Journal of Stroke, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Stroke risk is increased during pregnancy, but estimates of pregnancy-related
stroke incidence vary widely. Aims A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to …

2024 Guideline for the primary prevention of stroke: a guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

C Bushnell, WN Kernan, AZ Sharrief, S Chaturvedi… - Stroke, 2024 - ahajournals.org
AIM: The “2024 Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke” replaces the 2014
“Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke.” This updated guideline is intended to be a …

Acute cardiac effects of severe pre-eclampsia

AJ Vaught, LC Kovell, LM Szymanski, SA Mayer… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: Pre-eclampsia with severe features (PEC) is a pregnancy-specific syndrome
characterized by severe hypertension and end-organ dysfunction, and is associated with …

Sex differences in risk factors for vascular contributions to cognitive impairment & dementia

OJ Gannon, LS Robison, AJ Custozzo… - Neurochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is the second most
common cause of dementia. While males overall appear to be at a slightly higher risk for …

Preeclampsia: association with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome and stroke

M McDermott, EC Miller, T Rundek, PD Hurn… - Stroke, 2018 - ahajournals.org
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy serve as risk factors for both ischemic and
hemorrhagic strokes in pregnancy. A crosssectional study of≈ 82 000 000 pregnancy …