Cognitive performance after stroke--the Framingham Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals with a high risk of stroke are also more prone to cognitive impairment perhaps because of concomitant vascular risk factors. In addition, clinical stroke increases the risk of subsequent dementia. Nevertheless, the relationship between clinical stroke and subsequent cognitive function in initially nondemented individuals remains less clear as most prior studies examined case series without controls.

Aims

To specify among nondemented individuals the cognitive domains affected by clinical stroke, independently of vascular risk factors and prestroke cognition.

Methods

One hundred thirty-two Framingham study participants (mean age = 77 ± 9 years, 54% women) with prospectively validated initial strokes, as well as age- and gender-matched controls, un

SUBMITTER: Weinstein G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4215163 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature