Older stroke patients may not get needed anti-clotting drugs

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Following a first stroke, older, poorer and less educated patients may have lower odds of getting clot-busting drugs to help prevent another blockage of blood to the brain, a Swedish study suggests. “Our findings confirm socioeconomic inequalities in prescription of anticoagulants,” lead study author Maria Sjolander, a researcher in statistics and pharmacology at Umea University, said by email. The researchers studied roughly 12,000 first-time stroke patients who also had a heart rhythm disorder known as atrial fibrillation that raises stroke risk and found just 36 percent of them were prescribed anticoagulant drugs when they left the hospital.
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Order of food during a meal may influence blood sugar

By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes may feel better after a meal if they start it off with vegetables or proteins and end with the carbs, suggests a new study of 11 people. Finishing the broccoli and chicken before tucking into bread and fruit juice was tied to a lower rise in blood sugar levels over the next two hours, compared to eating the same foods in the opposite order, researchers report in Diabetes Care. “When we saw the result, we were really encouraged that this is something that could potentially benefit people,” said Dr. Louis Aronne, the study’s senior author from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
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