Irish Heart Stroke News Archives

Stroke News

Coming up in the Irish Heart Foundation

Coming up in the Irish Heart Foundation July to August

Heart News | 25th Jun 2025

Coming up in the Irish Heart Foundation

Coming up in the Irish Heart Foundation April - June

Patient Champions Week - Advocating for One Another

Celebrating Patient Champion's Week.

World Stroke Day - events across the week

Engage with our stroke supports in your community

Light exercise may reduce stroke severity

Stroke News | 27th Sep 2018

Heart of the Matter – Sex after a stroke

Sex and sexuality after a stroke

Stroke News | 21st Sep 2018

Stroke threatens everyone

Joint statement on stroke from the World and European Stroke Organisations (WSO and ESO), the World Federation and the European Academy of Neurology (WFN and EAN)

Stroke News | 20th Sep 2018

Study questions benefit of statins in healthy elderly

Study suggests statins not associated with reduction in cardiovascular disease in healthy older people

Heart News | 11th Sep 2018

BP and cholesterol lowering drugs improve survival

Study confirms importance of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol to prevent cardiovascular deaths

Heart News | 29th Aug 2018

Young healthy people still need to keep cholesterol in check

Yong healthy people still need to keep cholesterol in check

Heart News | 28th Aug 2018

Death rates from stroke declining overall in Europe

Death rates from stroke declining overall but levelling off or increasing in some countries

Stroke News | 15th Aug 2018

A quarter of adults will have high blood pressure by 2020

Irish Heart Foundation calls on public to get their blood pressure checked

Stroke News | 14th Aug 2018