UC's David Robinson, MD, corresponding author on the research, said prior studies had examined short-term stroke outcomes of ...

In the past, strokes were treated after the damage was done. Patients often faced serious disabilities, and recovery focused ...

In the not-so-distant past, doctors treated strokes in an after-the-fact way. A stroke did its damage, and then—if the patient survived—a rehabilitation team stepped in to address the stroke’s effects ...

4.3% received tPA within 3 hours of stroke onset. Treatment rates could have increased to 28.6% if all patients had called 911 immediately, to 5.7% if transport time was instantaneous, and to 11.5 ...

Slightly overweight stroke survivors have a lower risk of ... compared to patients of "normal" weight. Recently, survival rates have improved and attention has shifted to the subsequent lives ...