{"id":8231,"date":"2014-02-10T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2014-02-10T03:06:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T09:06:15","slug":"american-heart-association-sets-first-guidelines-for-reducing-stroke-risks-unique-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/02\/10\/american-heart-association-sets-first-guidelines-for-reducing-stroke-risks-unique-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association sets first guidelines for reducing stroke risks unique to women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanDallas, TX<\/strong> – For the first time, guidelines have been developed for preventing stroke in women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a woman, you share many of the same risk factors for stroke with men, but your risk is also influenced by hormones, reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth and other sex-related factors,\u201d said Cheryl Bushnell, M.D., M.H.S., author of the new scientific statement published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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The guidelines outline stroke risks unique to women and provide scientifically-based recommendations on how best to treat them, including:<\/h4>\n
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  • Women with a history of high blood pressure before pregnancy should be considered for low-dose aspirin and\/or calcium supplement therapy to lower preeclampsia risks.<\/li>\n
  • Women who have preeclampsia have twice the risk of stroke and a four-fold risk of high blood pressure later in life. Therefore, preeclampsia should be recognized as a risk factor well after pregnancy, and other risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, and obesity in these women should be treated early.<\/li>\n
  • Pregnant women with moderately high blood pressure (150-159 mmHg\/100-109 mmHg) may be considered for blood pressure medication, whereas expectant mothers with severe high blood pressure (160\/110 mmHg or above) should be treated.<\/li>\n
  • Women should be screened for high blood pressure before taking birth control pills because the combination raises stroke risks.<\/li>\n
  • Women who have migraine headaches with aura should stop smoking to avoid higher stroke risks.<\/li>\n
  • Women over age 75 should be screened for atrial fibrillation risks due to its link to higher stroke risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Preeclampsia and eclampsia are blood pressure disorders during pregnancy that cause major complications, including stroke during or after delivery, premature birth, and risk for stroke well after child-bearing. Preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure and high protein levels in the urine, and when seizure also occurs, this is called eclampsia.<\/p>\n

    [320left]High blood pressure, migraine with aura, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, depression and emotional stress are stroke risk factors that tend to be stronger or more common in women than in men.<\/p>\n

    More studies need to be done to develop a female-specific score to identify women at risk for stroke, said Bushnell, associate professor of neurology and director of the Stroke Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.<\/p>\n

    The guidelines are geared to primary care providers, including OBGYNs.<\/p>\n

    Co-authors are Louise McCullough, M.D., Ph.D.; Issam Awad, M.D., M.Sc.; Monique Chireau, M.D., M.P.H.; Wende Fedder, D.N.P., R.N.; Karen Furie, M.D., M.P.H.; Virginia Howard, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.; Judith Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Lynda D. Lisabeth, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Ileana Pi\u00f1a, M.D., M.P.H.; Mathew Reeves, Ph.D., D.V.M.; Kathryn M. Rexrode, M.D., M.P.H.; Gustavo Saposnik, M.D., M.Sc.; Vineeta Singh, M.D.; Amytis Towfighi, M.D.; Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D.; and Matthew Walters, M.D., M.B.Ch.B., M.Sc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dallas, TX – For the first time, guidelines have been developed for preventing stroke in women. \u201cIf you are a woman, you share many of the same risk factors for stroke with men, but your risk is also influenced by hormones, reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth and other sex-related factors,\u201d said Cheryl Bushnell, M.D., M.H.S., author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,8666,8954,4030,4836,216,10480,215,2966,8955,3560,2543,8956,5823,3223],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-atrial-fibrillation","tag-childbirth","tag-dallas-tx","tag-depression","tag-diabetes","tag-health","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-high-cholesterol","tag-migraine-headaches","tag-pregnancy","tag-stroke","tag-wake-forest-baptist-medical-center","tag-winston-salem-nc","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}