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Do Amyloid Cerebral Deposits Influence the Long-Term Poststroke Cognitive Outcome?: The IDEA3 Study

Stroke Journal

The primary outcome was incident dementia; secondary outcomes were incident cognitive impairment, total prevalence of cognitive impairment, and modified Rankin Scale score.RESULTS:A survival analysis (mean poststroke follow-up, 80.427 months) showed that the incidence of incident dementia was higher in the PET-positive patients (odds ratio, 9.6 [95%

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Socioeconomic Disparities in Rate of Poststroke Dementia: A Nationwide Cohort Study

Stroke Journal

We aimed to investigate whether socioeconomic status was associated with the rate of poststroke dementia (PSD).METHODS:This METHODS:This was a nationwide register-based cohort study including all patients with incident ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke in Denmark from 2010 to 2020. Median age was 72 (6280) years, 56% were male, 5.1%

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Abstract WP273: The Association of Social Determinants of Health on Functional Outcome After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Stroke Journal

Background:It remains unknown which social determinants of health (SDOH) are impactful or when disparities begin to emerge in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). SDOH exposures included income bracket, educational attainment, marital status, race, and religion. Similarly, those with a diagnosis of dementia on admission, were 6.22

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I have used this to educate our residents, and I think they find it useful. Also consider non-hemorrhagic volume depletion, dehydration : orthostatic vitals may uncover this [see Mendu et al. (3)]. Negative predictors included dementia, pacemaker, coronary revascularization, and cerebrovascular disease. of ED visits.