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AF and Dementia

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

I believe that patients should be equipped with all the information that is out there to allow them to work out the best way they would like their condition to be managed and their doctor’s role is that of the educator and enabler rather than the doctor acting as if they know everything and the patient knows nothing.

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Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Early-Life Antecedents and Long-Term Implications for the Brain, Aging, Stroke, and Dementia: Dementia Series

Hypertension Journal

Cerebral small vessel disease is common in older adults and increases the risk of stroke, cognitive impairment, and dementia. Although early-life factors, particularly education, are major risk factors for Alzheimer disease, they are less established in small vessel disease or vascular cognitive impairment.

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Abstract TP13: Association Between Education Level and Post-Stroke Cognitive Decline - A Pooled Cohort Analysis of Four Cohorts

Stroke Journal

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP13-ATP13, February 1, 2024. Participants ≥18 years with incident stroke and free of dementia were included (52% female and 39% Black). Stroke might narrow the gap in executive function between stroke survivors with higher and lower education.

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Adverse Social Determinants of Health Linked to Treatment-resistant Hypertension in Black Americans

DAIC

Additionally, this risk was higher among Black American adults than white American adults, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health. Over a period of 9.5 years 24% of Black adults developed the condition compared with 15.9% of white adults.

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Abstract WMP16: Multi-Marker Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Score and Risk of Incident Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study

Stroke Journal

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWMP16-AWMP16, February 1, 2024. Background:Individual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) are associated with impaired cognition and dementia but may not reflect the overall burden of CSVD. Over a median follow-up time of 6.4 years (Q1-Q3: 4.6-11.3),

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Abstract TP48: Cognitive Impairment After Incident Stroke in The Cameron County Hispanic Cohort

Stroke Journal

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP48-ATP48, February 1, 2025. Introduction:Vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia are diagnosed based on brain vascular changes related to strokes. Strokes were self-reported and we used mini-mental score test (MMSE) to asses for cognitive impairment at each visit.

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

Stroke Journal

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue 1 , Page 74-83, January 1, 2025. BACKGROUND:Although the presence of amyloid deposits is associated with a more severe cognitive status in patients with stroke at baseline, its influence on the subsequent cognitive outcome has not been extensively assessed. 95% CI, 2.536.9];P=0.001), 95% CI, 2.536.9];P=0.001),