What to Eat and Avoid After a Stroke

After having a stroke, diet is an important part of recovering and preventing another one. Eating healthy foods can help manage risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and diabetes. Along with knowing the proper foods to eat and avoid, it can be helpful to learn how to read food…

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Atrial Fibrillation: The Rhythm of Stroke and Heart Failure

What is atrial fibrillation? Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Cardiac remodeling results in changes to the atria that eventually cause the change of rhythm. Atrial fibrillation typically occurs when an initiating trigger excites an ectopic focus in the atria, this allows for an unsynchronized firing of electrical impulses which causes fibrillation of…

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