Pages tagged with "Stroke"
- Stroke or coronary heart disease deaths 30% less likely if had taken more than 440 IU of vitamin D (900,000 patient years)
- Strokes 3 X worse if low vitamin D
- Large vessel Ischemic Stroke 13 X more likely if low vitamin D
- Low vitamin D at time of stroke predicts 3 X more likely to die in a month (unless add Vit D)
- Post stroke Calcitriol injections reduced edema and cell death (in rats)
- Intracranial arterial calcification in 85 percent of ischemic strokes (Vitamin K and Vitamin D should help)
- Ischemic stroke and low vitamin D – 3X higher risk of poor outcome, 6 X higher risk of a second stroke,
- Death within 2 years of surviving an ischemic stroke 10X less likely if high vitamin D
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old)
- Stroke rate increased 85 percent in young women in large cities in the Western US in a decade
- Retinal venous occlusions (eye stroke) 133 X more likely if low vitamin D
- Risk of Ischemic Stroke doubles if take more than 1 gram of Calcium daily for years
- Variety of evidence that Vitamin D helps the brain
- Ischemic Stroke risk best predicted by Vitamin D, including PTH improves the prediction
- Better outcome following Ischemic stroke if injected with 600,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Stroke rates increasing in youth and decreasing in elderly (perhaps due to Vitamin D)
- Blacks with strokes having low Vitamin D were 3 times more likely to have cognitive impairment
- Both Spinal cord injury and stroke with one side disabled have similar low levels of vitamin D
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT
- Twice as likely to die during neurological critical care if low vitamin D