{"id":2459,"date":"2014-07-21T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2014-07-21T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:28:57","slug":"seniors-still-at-risk-of-stroke-2-years-after-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/seniors-still-at-risk-of-stroke-2-years-after-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors still at risk of stroke 2 years after heart surgery<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Older people who have undergone surgery are at increased risk of suffering a stroke for up to 2 years afterward, a new study shows. While it was known that the risk increases immediately after surgery, the new study shows that the risk period extends longer than expected. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers followed 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery in Ontario between 1996 and 2006. The authors call for future research to look for preventive strategies for patients that are 75 years and older, suffering from diabetes or have congestive heart failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/07\/21\/cmaj.131214\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Canadian Medical Association Journal<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 21, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/fhs.mcmaster.ca\/surgery\/cardiacsurgery\/whitlock_richard.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Whitlock<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, McMaster University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older people who have undergone surgery are at increased risk of suffering a stroke for up to 2 years afterward, a new study shows. While it was known that the risk increases immediately after surgery, the new study shows that the risk period extends longer than expected. Researchers followed 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1123,1989,51,1990,53,50,1991],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-aging","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-stroke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-DF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}