Stroke Alert June 2021

<p>Stroke Alert June 2021</p> <p>On Episode 5 of the Stroke Alert Podcast, host Dr. Negar Asdaghi highlights two articles from the June 2021 issue of <em>Stroke</em>: "<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032258">Preexisting Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and Receipt of Treatments for Acute Ischemic Stroke</a>” and “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.033595">Body Mass Index in 1.9 Million Adolescents and Stroke in Young Adulthood</a>.” She also interviews Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, from the University of Chicago, about his article "<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032676">Predictors of Early Infarct Recurrence in Patients With Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease</a>."</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:</p> <p>1) Do people with mild cognitive impairment receive the same quality of stroke care as their cognitively normal counterparts?</p> <p>2) Is there a causative relationship between the alarming rise in adolescent obesity and the rise in the incidence of stroke under the age of 50?</p> <p>3) What are the independent predictors of radiographic recurrence in patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease?</p> <p>These are the topics that we will cover in today's podcast. You're listening to the Stroke Alert Podcast. Stay with us.</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:                        From the Editorial Board of <em>Stroke</em>, welcome to the Stroke Alert Podcast. My name is Negar Asdaghi. I'm an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and your host for the monthly <em>Stroke Alert</em> Podcast. For the June 2021 issue of <em>Stroke</em>, we have a range of publications that cover a variety of topics from activation of neuroinflammatory pathways and intracerebral hemorrhage to predictors of outcome in patients with mild and rapidly improving ischemic stroke, which I encourage you to review, in addition to our podcast. Later in today's podcast, I have the privilege of