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K W Davidson

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Three top Canadian and personal health concerns of a random sample of Nova Scotian women.

We sought to understand the subjective reports of women's health concerns. A randomly dialled telephone survey was conducted resulting in a sample of 458 women (Caucasian/European = 302, Native/Aboriginal = 81, Black = 75), aged 18-81. Women were asked in an open-ended format to list their three top health concerns for themselves and then for Canadian women. Responses were recorded verbatim and categorized into one of nine mutually exclusive health concern categories. The three main health concerns for Canadian women were: Psychosocial Issues, Other Specific Illnesses, and Cancer. The three most important personal health concerns were Psychosocial Issues, Other Specific Illnesses, and Heart and Related Diseases. Few ethnic differences were noted. Results suggest that it is important to recognize and attempt to alleviate health concerns about stress and depression, which are not usually considered as being major health problems by health care professionals.

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Lacunar strokes: current concepts.

Lacunar strokes result from occlusion of penetrating arteries in the deeper, subcortical parts of the cerebrum and brain stem. Approximately 19 percent of all strokes are of the lacunar variety with lacunar strokes representing the most common cerebrovascular complication of chronic hypertension. Four major clinical syndromes are pure motor hemiparesis, pure sensory stroke, ataxic hemiparesis, and the dysarthria-clumsy hand syndrome. The advent of computed tomography (CT) has allowed the antemortem study of lacunar disease and has shed new light on the pathogenesis and clinical course of lacunar strokes. Recently, it has been demonstrated that lacunar strokes may be embolic or hemorrhagic in causation, are not invariably associated with hypertension, and may be larger and associated with hypertension, and may be larger and associated with neurological manifestations that do not conform to the classic patterns. In most instances, however, recognition of the characteristic clinical presentation and confirmation of the diagnosis with noninvasive studies spare many patients unnecessary risks associated with anticoagulation, arteriography, or vascular surgery.

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