Millions of people survive heart attacks each year, yet many go on to experience memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, and ...

Many people think of Alzheimer’s disease as a disorder that only affects the brain. The disease gradually damages memory, ...

Strokes lead to irreversible damage to the brain and are one of the most common causes of dependency or death. As the cellular reactions to a cerebral infarction are not yet fully understood, there ...

Among multiple cardiovascular disease subtypes examined in two large cohorts, hypotension shows the strongest association ...

An unhealthy lifestyle, diseases or injuries, genetic predisposition, and increased coagulation tendency can promote the formation of thrombi in blood vessels. These clots obstruct the flow of blood ...

Ischaemic stroke arises when cerebral blood flow is critically reduced, depriving neural tissue of oxygen and glucose. The primary event is often thromboembolic occlusion of a major artery, though ...

A team of Japanese and German scientists said its recent discoveries could lead to medicine that promotes and prolongs ...

Cardio-cerebral infarction refers to the simultaneous occurrence of acute ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction, a rare but life-threatening syndrome that unites two leading causes of mortality ...

BERLIN, Germany—Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are more likely than similar individuals without the arrhythmia to have brain infarcts detected on MRI, an analysis of the Swiss-AF cohort study ...

Strokes lead to irreversible damage to the brain and are one of the most common causes of dependency or death. As the cellular reactions to a cerebral infarction are not yet fully understood, there is ...