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Report urges Canadians to focus on health basics as 80% of premature heart disease and stroke preventable
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 5, 2026 Source:Report urges Canadians to focus on health basics as 80% of premature heart disease and stroke preventable Reference:Heart & Stroke report: New data provides big picture of heart and brain risk factors
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Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With Four Risk Factors
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 9, 2025 Source:Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With Four Risk Factors Reference:Very High Prevalence of Nonoptimally Controlled Traditional Risk Factors at the Onset of Cardiovascular Disease
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Another observational food study with its inherent self-reporting bias this time about the link between fizzy drinks, coffee, and fruit juice consumption and increasing stroke risk.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 7, 2024 Source:Frequent drinking of fizzy beverages and fruit juice linked to an increased risk of stroke: research Reference:Frequent fizzy or fruit drinks and high coffee consumption linked to higherstroke risk
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1 in 3 Canadians don’t know the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest, poll finds.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 19, 2023 Source:1 in 3 Canadians don’t know the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest, poll finds
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AI brain implant helps woman speak for the 1st time in 18 years after suffering a stoke when she was 30 that resulted in locked-in syndrome
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 28, 2023 Source:AI brain implant helps Sask. woman speak for the 1st time in 18 years
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Aspirin can help reduce risk of second heart attack, but study finds less than half of eligible adults take it
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 23, 2023 Source:Aspirin can help reduce risk of second heart attack, but study finds less than half of eligible adults take it Reference:Aspirin for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in 51 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
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Zero-calorie sweetener, Erythritol, associated with increased cardiovascular disease and stroke risk but it is rife with methodological flaws elegantly outlined and debunked by @Dr_Guess.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February , 2023 Source:Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds Reference:The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk
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Epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord for post-stroke upper-limb paresis restores partial arm and hand function in small proof-of-concept study
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 22, 2023 Source:In test, zaps to spine help 2 stroke survivors move arms Reference:Epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord for post-stroke upper-limb paresis
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Large stroke trial finds intensive blood pressure lowering after clot removal worsens recovery
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 31, 2022 Source:Large stroke trial finds intensive blood pressure lowering after clot removal worsens recovery Reference:Intensive blood pressure control after endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke (ENCHANTED2/MT): a multicentre, open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised controlled trial