With your excellent chance of getting dementia post stroke why hasn't your doctor offered you this option?
Your chances of getting dementia.
1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.
2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.
3. A 20% chance in this research. July 2013.
4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018
5. Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017
Maybe because s/he has nothing in the way of a dementia prevention protocol? There is no excuse for such incompetency, see the following; You are on your own for prevention.
- dementia prevention (111)
- Alzheimers prevention (58)
Advanced MRI Brain Scan May Help Predict Stroke-Related Dementia
An
advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan analysis in
patients with stroke-related, small vessel disease helps predict
problems with thinking, memory, and even dementia, according to a study
published in Stroke.
“We have developed a useful tool for monitoring patients at risk of developing dementia and could target those who need early treatment,” said Rebecca A. Charlton, PhD, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
For the study, Owen A. Williams, PhD, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, and colleagues analysed 99 patients aged 43 to 89 years with small vessel disease who underwent annual diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for 3 years and cognitive assessment for 5 years.
The researchers used DTI as a whole-cerebrum measure of small vessel disease severity. Dementia diagnosis was based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V criteria.
During the study period, 18.2% of patients converted to dementia.
The study found that patients with the most brain damage seen via DTI were much more likely to experience a decline in executive function and global cognition. The analysis also helped predict three-fourths of the dementia cases that occurred during the study.
This advanced MRI analysis offers a highly accurate and sensitive marker of small vessel disease severity in a single measure that can be used to detect who will and will not go on the develop dementia in a 5-year period, concluded Dr. Charlton.
“We have developed a useful tool for monitoring patients at risk of developing dementia and could target those who need early treatment,” said Rebecca A. Charlton, PhD, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
For the study, Owen A. Williams, PhD, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, and colleagues analysed 99 patients aged 43 to 89 years with small vessel disease who underwent annual diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for 3 years and cognitive assessment for 5 years.
The researchers used DTI as a whole-cerebrum measure of small vessel disease severity. Dementia diagnosis was based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V criteria.
During the study period, 18.2% of patients converted to dementia.
The study found that patients with the most brain damage seen via DTI were much more likely to experience a decline in executive function and global cognition. The analysis also helped predict three-fourths of the dementia cases that occurred during the study.
This advanced MRI analysis offers a highly accurate and sensitive marker of small vessel disease severity in a single measure that can be used to detect who will and will not go on the develop dementia in a 5-year period, concluded Dr. Charlton.
Useless because you have NO PREVENTION PROTOCOL.
Reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.025843
SOURCE: American Heart Association
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