Primary Stroke Prevention
American Heart Association, American Stroke AssociationPublished: February 4, 2025
- Overview
- Top 10 Take-Home Messages
- General Concepts
- Patient Assessment
- Management
- Risk Factors
- Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
- Asymptomatic Cerebral SVD, Including Silent Cerebral Infarcts
- Migraine
- Specific Populations
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Genetic Stroke Syndromes
- Coagulation and Inflammatory Disorders
- Substance Use and Substance Disorders
- Sex- and Gender-Specific Factors
- Heart Disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Antiplatelet Use for Primary Prevention
- Tables
- Study Populations and Characteristics Included for Primary Prevention Evidence Review
- Key Conditions Affecting Stroke Risk and Screening Methods to Classify Them as Emphasized in This Guideline for Primary Prevention of Stroke
- Summary of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Evidence for the Effects of Miscellaneous Dietary Interventions on Stroke Risk
- Anthropometric Measures of Obesity and Associated Stroke Risk
- Methods and Ranges of Diabetes Diagnosis
- Qualifications for Treatment With Lipid Therapy
- Mean Flow Velocity Timing Paradigms for TCD Reevaluation and Candidacy for Exchange Transfusion
- Genetic Stroke Syndromes
- Definitions of Medium to High aPL Titers and of High-Risk and Low-Risk aPL Profiles
- Definitions and Diagnostic Thresholds for Hypertension in Pregnancy
- APOs Associated With Long-Term Stroke Risk
- Contraception Method and Effect on Stroke Risk
- Figures and Algorithms
- Elements Associated With Elevated Stroke Risk
- Selected Genetic, Biological, and Social Factors Affecting Stroke Risk
- Life’s Essential 8
- Mechanisms of Pregnancy-Associated Stroke
- Screening Algorithm for History of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Adults
- Considerations for Menopausal Hormone Treatment (MHT) to Minimize Stroke Risk
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