Tag: Tobias Kurth

  • Campus & Community

    Migraine auras and heart disease linked – risks high for women

    Marsha T. saw the lights of pain coming. They flashed and zigzagged before her eyes. Her visual field shrank into a tunnel. A registered nurse, she knew what was next. In about 30 minutes, a familiar sharp, pulsating pain ripped through her head. Now 48 years old, she had been suffering from migraine headaches with…

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  • Campus & Community

    Obese women two times more likely to have a stroke

    A long-awaited federally funded study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) recently announced that taking an aspirin a day helps women prevent one of the nation’s leading causes of disability – stroke. Now, another team of BWH researchers has more stroke prevention advice that may have an even greater impact on reducing…

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  • Health

    Smoking increases bleeding into the brain, study finds

    A research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that stroke risk for women increased proportionately with the number of cigarettes smoked each day. In contrast, women who stopped smoking were at no additional risk. The findings appeared in the Nov. 13, 2003 online edition of the journal, Stroke, a publication of the American…

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  • Health

    Risk of stroke from obesity is now measurable

    While it has been suspected for some time that being overweight could potentially increase a person’s chances of a stroke, a study published in the Dec. 9, 2002, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine offers some of the first concrete evidence that as a man’s weight increases, so do his chances of suffering from…

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