Mortality After Ischemic Stroke in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Dementia and Other Dementia Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke and dementia are interrelated diseases and risk for both increases with age. Even though stroke incidence and age-standardized death rates have decreased due to prevention of stroke risk factors, increased utilization of reperfusion therapies, and other changes in healthcare, the absolute numbers are increasing due to population growth and aging.

Objective

To analyze predictors of death after stroke in patients with dementia and investigate possible time and treatment trends.

Methods

A national longitudinal cohort study 2007-2017 using Swedish national registries. We compared 12,629 ischemic stroke events in patients with dementia with matched 57,954 stroke events in non-dementia controls in different aspects of patient care and mortality. Relationsh

SUBMITTER: Zupanic E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293632 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature