• After A Stroke, Women's Lives Are Worse Than Men's
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[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/07/273102609/after-a-stroke-womens-lives-are-worse-than-mens"]NPR Link[/URL] [quote=NPR]Thursday saw the first-ever guidelines for prevention of stroke in women. They pointed out that women are more likely than men to have strokes. Young women are vulnerable because of pregnancy and birth control pills. And when women do have strokes, they fare less well than men — even a year later, according to a study published Friday in the journal Neurology. People who had strokes were called three months and 12 months later and asked how they were doing in terms of mobility, being able to care for themselves, usual activities, pain, depression and anxiety. The researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., surveyed 1,370 people with a median age of 65. Three months after the stroke, women reported having significantly lower quality of life than men. They were more likely to report problems with mobility, usual activities, depression and anxiety, and pain.[/quote]
Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? I mean no fucking shit your life after having a stroke is going to be worse than that of a healthy man that has not had a stroke, and probably the life of a healthy woman who has not had a stroke too. You had a goddamn stroke, did you expect your life to suddenly get better?
[quote]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes?[/quote] The latter.
[QUOTE=Simski;43836115]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? I mean no fucking shit your life after having a stroke is going to be worse than that of a healthy man that has not had a stroke, and probably the life of a healthy woman who has not had a stroke too. You had a goddamn stroke, did you expect your life to suddenly get better?[/QUOTE] Evidently they are comparing women who had strokes to men who had strokes.
[QUOTE=Simski;43836115]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? [/QUOTE] Isn't that kind of obvious? No, I don't doubt that there're idiotic studies performed out there somewhere every week, but that would just be retarded.
[quote]The study has several limitations. First, we did not have a severity index for stroke victims, and we did not have information about risk factors for the patients, such as whether they smoked or had chronic hypertension. Second, we had very limited prehospital and in-hospital treatment and timing information, which is critical for stroke patient survival. In addition, a Nebraska resident could have been hospitalized for stroke within the state but moved out of the state and died; we had such records only if the death occurred in a state with which Nebraska has a vital statistic exchange agreement. In addition, no data were available about Nebraska residents who may have been hospitalized for stroke in another state. Finally, although our check of the data linkage quality showed a high degree of accuracy, it is possible that some patients were missed during the linkage process. In conclusion, among persons hospitalized with a stroke in Nebraska between 2005 and 2009, the crude case fatality rate was 50% higher in women. However, after accounting for age and other variables, adjusted mortality rates were essentially the same for men and women. In addition, females are more likely to have other medical conditions, which make it less likely that they will survive longer than their male counterparts.[/quote] They've acknowledged a few flaws with the study, such as it is, but the one that concerns me most is the kind and quality of management each individual case received. That in and of itself has the most bearing on survival vs. death. edit: [url]http://www.strokejournal.org/article/S1052-3057(11)00294-1/fulltext[/url] - here's the full text article for those into that sort of thing. I'll have to read this more thoroughly at another date.
[QUOTE=Simski;43836115]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? I mean no fucking shit your life after having a stroke is going to be worse than that of a healthy man that has not had a stroke, and probably the life of a healthy woman who has not had a stroke too. You had a goddamn stroke, did you expect your life to suddenly get better?[/QUOTE] Back in my day we did a thing called reading the article
[QUOTE=Simski;43836115]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? I mean no fucking shit your life after having a stroke is going to be worse than that of a healthy man that has not had a stroke, and probably the life of a healthy woman who has not had a stroke too. You had a goddamn stroke, did you expect your life to suddenly get better?[/QUOTE] Where the hell did you learn how to read from you should probably demand a refund
[QUOTE=Simski;43836115]Why the comparison with men, or are they comparing their quality of life with men that also had strokes? I mean no fucking shit your life after having a stroke is going to be worse than that of a healthy man that has not had a stroke, and probably the life of a healthy woman who has not had a stroke too. You had a goddamn stroke, did you expect your life to suddenly get better?[/QUOTE] Bad reading was the best rating this forum ever had.
I don't know, as a man I always feel immediately disgusted with myself after a stroke.
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