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Dementia Three Months After Stroke Baseline Frequency and Effect of Different Definitions of Dementia in the Helsinki Stroke Aging Memory Study (SAM) Cohort

Tarja Pohjasvaara, +3 more
- 01 Apr 1997 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 4, pp 785-792
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The findings question the validity of current criteria for dementia in the setting of cerebrovascular disease and emphasize the need for further debate and studies to refine the categories of cognitive impairment related to cerebroVascular disease.
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Background and Purpose Vascular dementia is a common cause of dementia, and cerebrovascular disease is related to a higher risk of dementia. The frequency of dementia associated with ischemic stroke and the effects of different definitions of dementia in the diagnosis are still incompletely known. We evaluated the frequency of cognitive decline and dementia 3 months after ischemic stroke in a large stroke cohort. Methods Our cohort consisted of consecutively admitted ischemic stroke patients (n=486) aged 55 to 85 years in the Helsinki (Finland) Stroke Aging Memory Study (SAM). Subjects were assessed by structured medical, neurological, and radiological examinations and interview with a close informant, as well as by the Mini-Mental State Examination and detailed clinical mental status examination of defined cognitive domains. The criteria for dementia were those of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and DSM-IV), the National Institute of Neurological Disor...

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Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pre-stroke and post-stroke dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Vascular Cognitive Impairment

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Effects of blood pressure lowering with perindopril and indapamide therapy on dementia and cognitive decline in patients with cerebrovascular disease.

TL;DR: Findings further support the recommendation that blood pressure lowering with perindopril and indapamide therapy be considered for all patients with cerebrovascular disease.
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Research criteria for subcortical vascular dementia in clinical trials.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modification of the NINDS-AIREN criteria was proposed for subcortical vascular dementia (VaD), which includes small vessel disease as the primary vascular etiology, lacunar infarct(s) and ischaemic white matter lesions as primary type of brain lesions.
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“Mini-mental state”: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician

TL;DR: A simplified, scored form of the cognitive mental status examination, the “Mini-Mental State” (MMS) which includes eleven questions, requires only 5-10 min to administer, and is therefore practical to use serially and routinely.

A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician

TL;DR: The Mini-Mental State (MMS) as mentioned in this paper is a simplified version of the standard WAIS with eleven questions and requires only 5-10 min to administer, and is therefore practical to use serially and routinely.
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Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

M. P. Lawton, +1 more
- 21 Sep 1969 - 
TL;DR: Two scales first standardized on their own population are presented, one of which taps a level of functioning heretofore inadequately represented in attempts to assess everyday functional competence, and the other taps a schema of competence into which these behaviors fit.
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