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Brazilian study doesn’t necessarily mean that heart attack or stroke risk rises in winter

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Cholesterol Levels May Vary By Season

Older adults, blacks, American Indians, those with fewer years of education and those living in the southeast, have elevated stroke risk, U.S. officials say. A report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said those age 65 and older and American Indians had the highest risk for stroke, and the risk was lowest among Asian-Americans….

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Most U.S. Stroke Risk is in the Southeast

A person’s stroke risk could be influenced by his or her exposure to sunlight, new research from the University of Alabama shows. According to HealthDay News, people who don’t see the sun as often are at a greater risk for stroke….

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Stroke Risk Greater With Lack Of Sunlight

Controversial painkiller was pulled from the market in 2004 due to heightened heart attack, stroke risk

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Merck to Pay $950M to Settle Probe of Vioxx Marketing

A screening used to predict a patient's risk of stroke may also give doctor's a way to guage a person's odds of having future memory loss, according to a new study. “Overall, it appears that the total Stroke Risk Profile score, while initially created to predict stroke, is also useful in determining the risk of cognitive problems,” study researcher Frederick Unverzagt, PhD, says in a news release reported by WebMD. He is a professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis….

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Stroke Risk Factors Also Predict Memory Problems

Chocolate may reduce a woman's chance of suffering from a stroke by as much as 20 percent, Swedish scientists suggest in a study published Monday. The National Institute of Environmental Medicine's Susanna Larsson led the large study that found chocolate reduced the risk of hemorrhagic (bleeding in the brain) and ischemic (cutoff of blood flow to the brain) strokes, ABC News reports.

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Chocolate May Reduce Stroke