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Non-Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage and Risk of Incident Dementia in U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries

Stroke Journal

The outcome was a first-ever diagnosis of dementia. We excluded patients who had prevalent intracranial hemorrhage or dementia, to ensure that only incident cases were counted in our analyses. In secondary analyses, the risks of dementia in different subtypes of intracranial hemorrhage were studied.Results:Among 2.1

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Abstract WP51: Non-Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage and Risk of Incident Dementia

Stroke Journal

The outcome was an incident diagnosis of dementia. In the primary analysis, we used Cox regression to study the risk of dementia after any intracranial hemorrhage, after adjusting for demographics and comorbidities. In secondary analyses, a higher risk of incident dementia was observed with intracerebral hemorrhage (HR, 2.4;