If you have this your doctor should really be pushing dementia prevention. But don't listen to me as I have nothing worthwhile to say on medical issues because; not trained, stroke addled, doctor control of your health.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/resource-center/atrial-fibrillation/Atrial-Fibrillation-Dementia-Association-Beyond-Stroke/a/33606?
As our nation ages, the prevalence of both atrial fibrillation (AF) and
dementia are rising. Ten percent of the nearly 3 million people in the
US affected by AF are over the age of 80.1 Conventionally,
it's been easy to appreciate a pathway from AF to dementia involving
clinically significant strokes damaging areas of the brain responsible
for cognition. However, recent studies have suggested that AF itself is a risk factor for dementia even in the absence of clinical stroke.2-6
One meta-analysis of seven prospective trials found an odds ratio of
1.6 for the association between AF and dementia. Many of the individual
studies had important methodologic limitations,7 however,
such as small sample size leading to underpowering, short follow-up,
unadjudicated identification of dementia, and AF diagnoses established
only at baseline.
Rest at link and your doctor knows all about it anyway. Who, me worry?
You already put your stroke recovery in your doctors hands and that worked perfectly, didn't it? This has been known since 1997
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