College kid couldn t shake headache - until other symptoms revealed a stroke
Diane Daniel, American Heart Association News
May 27, 2021
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Soon after turning 21, Jacob York and his buddies from the University of Missouri were in Miami Beach, Florida, for spring break. They spent their days by the shore and nights at the bar.
So when he felt an incredibly sore throat and a headache, he chalked it up to too much partying and not enough sleep.
Around the time they returned to school, COVID-19 restrictions were put into place. He left his off-campus apartment in Columbia and returned to his parents home in Hannibal, Missouri.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder may triple stroke risk
American Heart Association News
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People with obsessive-compulsive disorder may be more than three times as likely as those without it to have a stroke caused by a blood clot, particularly older adults, new research finds.
The research, published Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, suggests people with OCD should be closely monitored and treated for stroke risk factors. The results of our study should encourage people with OCD to maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as quitting or not smoking, getting regular physical activity and managing a healthy weight to avoid stroke-related risk factors, the study s senior author, Dr. Ya-Mei Bai, said in a news release. Bai is a professor in the department of psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, both in Taiwan.
Deep disparities persist in who gets exposed to secondhand smoke
Sheila Flynn, American Heart Association News
May 27, 2021
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Harmful secondhand tobacco smoke remains more widespread than most people think, experts say, and exposure is particularly high for children, Black adults and people living below the poverty line.
One of the biggest hurdles is smokers often underestimate the levels of exposure and the effects on nonsmokers lungs, hearts and brains. There s denial among the smokers that they don t smoke around children, they don t smoke in the house, they don t smoke in the car, said Dr. Geetha Raghuveer, a pediatric cardiologist at Children s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. But that may not be something they can execute all the time.