Young and middle-aged adults who vape and smoke are more likely to have had a stroke than those who use only one of these types of nicotine product, or none at all, a study suggests. Researchers ...

People who smoke or have recently quit have higher odds of being severely impaired after a stroke than their counterparts who never smoked, a new study suggests. Smoking has long been linked to an ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. This devastating event occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts. The resulting ...

A FRESH study has found that those who smoke e-cigarettes or vapes could be at a higher risk of heart attacks, particularly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “These data support the need for interventions to address the substantial proportion of stroke survivors with a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Smoking, particularly heavy smoking, is linked to some unexplained strokes in younger adults, mainly in male individuals and in people ages 45 to 49, according to a study published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with acute ischemic stroke, persistent smoking conferred elevated risk for CV events and death vs.

Stroke is no longer a disease of old age alone. In the fast-growing desk-job culture, long hours of sitting, poor posture and chronic inactivity are emerging as serious stroke triggers. Neurologist ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke.

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Patients who resume smoking after a stroke increase their risk of death by three-fold, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Professor Furio ...

Current cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked per day are associated with more than twice the risk for all stroke - ischemic and hemorrhagic - among African Americans compared to ...