Deans' stroke musings: Quantitative analysis of dietary protein intake and stroke risk

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Quantitative analysis of dietary protein intake and stroke risk

You'll have to ask your doctor exactly how you get that 26% reduction in stroke risk. Is your hospital diet setup to give you this reduction?
http://www.neurology.org/content/83/1/19.abstract

Zhizhong Zhang, MD, PhD*,
Gelin Xu, MD, PhD*,
Fang Yang, MD, PhD,
Wusheng Zhu, MD, PhD and
Xinfeng Liu, MD, PhD

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Correspondence to Dr. Liu: xfliu2@vip.163.com

Published online before print June 11, 2014, doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000551 Neurology July 1, 2014 vol. 83 no. 1 19-25

Abstract

Objective: To perform a meta-analysis of prospective studies to evaluate the relation between dietary protein intake and stroke risk.

Methods: Relevant studies were identified by searching PubMed and Embase through November 2013, and by reviewing the reference lists of retrieved articles. We included prospective cohort studies that reported relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between dietary protein intake and stroke risk.

Results: The meta-analysis included 7 prospective studies involving 254,489 participants. The pooled RR of stroke for the highest compared with the lowest dietary protein intake was 0.80 (95% CI 0.66–0.99). Dose-response analysis indicated that a 20-g/d increment in dietary protein intake was associated with a 26% reduction in stroke risk. Stratifying by protein type, the RR of stroke for animal protein was 0.71 (95% CI 0.50–0.99). Sensitivity analysis restricted to studies with control for common risk factors yielded similar results, and omission of any single study did not change the overall result.

Conclusion: These findings suggest that moderate dietary protein intake may lower the risk of stroke.