Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Chapter Thirty One Cerebral Angiography
- Chapter Thirty Two Computed Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Three Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Chapter Thirty Four Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
- Chapter Thirty Five Cerebral Blood Flow, Radionuclides, and Positron Emission Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Six Cardiac Imaging and Function
- Chapter Thirty Seven Stroke-Related Terms
- Chapter Thirty Eight Epidemiology and Risk Factors
- Chapter Thirty Nine Data Banks and Registries
- Chapter Forty Pediatric Stroke
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Thirty Eight - Epidemiology and Risk Factors
from Imaging
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Chapter Thirty One Cerebral Angiography
- Chapter Thirty Two Computed Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Three Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Chapter Thirty Four Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
- Chapter Thirty Five Cerebral Blood Flow, Radionuclides, and Positron Emission Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Six Cardiac Imaging and Function
- Chapter Thirty Seven Stroke-Related Terms
- Chapter Thirty Eight Epidemiology and Risk Factors
- Chapter Thirty Nine Data Banks and Registries
- Chapter Forty Pediatric Stroke
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
Epidemiological studies sought to understand what behaviors and health conditions led to heart disease and strokes [1]. If one knew the factors that led to these conditions, heart attacks and strokes could be prevented by controlling these adverse conditions. During the first half of the twentieth century, coronary artery atherosclerosis with occlusions of the coronary arteries became a widely accepted cause of heart attacks and cardiac deaths. Cardiologists and internists wanted to try to understand what presaged coronary artery disease. They urged the US Congress to support community studies that could yield important information about heart disease precursors. Since many strokes were caused by emboli from the heart and impaired heart function, the information gleaned would also be important for stroke. Atherosclerosis, the cause of coronary artery disease, was also the major cause of disease of the arteries that supply the brain.
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