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2024 Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke: A Guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

  • Cheryl Bushnell
  • , Walter N. Kernan
  • , Anjail Z. Sharrief
  • , Seemant Chaturvedi
  • , John W. Cole
  • , William K. Cornwell
  • , Christine Cosby-Gaither
  • , Sarah Doyle
  • , Larry B. Goldstein
  • , Olive Lennon
  • , Deborah A. Levine
  • , Mary Love
  • , Eliza Miller
  • , Mai Nguyen-Huynh
  • , Jennifer Rasmussen-Winkler
  • , Kathryn M. Rexrode
  • , Nicole Rosendale
  • , Satyam Sarma
  • , Daichi Shimbo
  • , Alexis N. Simpkins
  • Erica S. Spatz, Lisa R. Sun, Vin Tangpricha, Dawn Turnage, Gabriela Velazquez, Paul K. Whelton, Tatjana Rundek, Karen Furie, Niloufar Hadidi, Hugo Aparicio, Trissa Babrowski, Stacy Beck, Jordana Cohen, Keith Diaz, Nada El Husseini, Bethany Gibbs, Rebecca Gottesman, Michael Irwig, Dinesh Jillella, Ronda Johnson, Erica Jones, Lori Jordon, Suzanne Judd, Salomeh Keyhani, Lisa Leffert, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Jo Ann Manson, Jorge Moreno, Setareh Salehi Omran, Mayowa Owolabi, Matthew Robbins, Marc Schermerhorn, Souvik Sen, Michael Shapiro, Lesli Skolarus, Damon Swift, Anthony Viera, Chloe Villavaso, Bradford Worrall, Jose Romano, Nerissa Ko, Joseph P. Broderick, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, Mona Bahouth, Michelle Camicia, Mandip Dhamoon, Justin Frazer, Jose Gutierrez, Koto Ishida, Ronald Lazar, William Mack, Soojin Park, Lauren Sansing, Laura Stein, Kori Zachrison, Keith Churchwell, Nancy Brown, Mariell Jessup, Nicole Aiello Sapio, Radhika Rajgopal Singh, Prashant Nedungadi, Sabrina Times, Melanie Stephens-Lyman, Anne Leonard

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Abstract

AIM: The "2024 Guideline for the Primary Prevention of Stroke"replaces the 2014 "Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke."This updated guideline is intended to be a resource for clinicians to use to guide various prevention strategies for individuals with no history of stroke. METHODS: A comprehensive search for literature published since the 2014 guideline; derived from research involving human participants published in English; and indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and other selected and relevant databases was conducted between May and November 2023. Other documents on related subject matter previously published by the American Heart Association were also reviewed. STRUCTURE: Ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes lead to significant disability but, most important, are preventable. The 2024 primary prevention of stroke guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for strategies to prevent stroke throughout the life span. These recommendations align with the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 for optimizing cardiovascular and brain health, in addition to preventing incident stroke. We also have added sex-specific recommendations for screening and prevention of stroke, which are new compared with the 2014 guideline. Many recommendations for similar risk factor prevention were updated, new topics were reviewed, and recommendations were created when supported by sufficient-quality published data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)e344-e424
JournalStroke
Volume55
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2024

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© 2024 American Heart Association, Inc.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • AHA Scientific Statements
  • guideline
  • hemorrhagic stroke
  • ischemic stroke
  • stroke

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