Deans' stroke musings: The importance of stroke as a risk factor of cognitive decline in community dwelling older and oldest peoples: The SONIC study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

The importance of stroke as a risk factor of cognitive decline in community dwelling older and oldest peoples: The SONIC study

Yes, we have known of cognitive decline from stroke for decades. You have uselessly told us what we already know. And even more useless didn't provide a solution to prevent that cognitive decline.

The importance of stroke as a risk factor of cognitive decline in community dwelling older and oldest peoples: The SONIC study

BMC Geriatrics — Srithumsuk W, Kabayama M, Gondo Y, et al. | January 28, 2020

Researchers conducted a longitudinal study with a 3-year follow-up in Japan including 1,333 community-dwelling older and oldest people (70 years old = 675, 80 years old = 589, and 90 years old = 69) in order to determine the value of stroke as a risk factor of cognitive decline during 3 years in these people. As per the fit of the hypothesized model by multiple logistic regression, important risk factors are a history of stroke, advanced age, and greater Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment score at the baseline, while protective factors are the presence of dyslipidemia and a higher educational level that are significantly associated with cognitive decline during the 3-year follow-up. They recommend considering these factors when searching for creative solutions to limit cognitive decline after stroke in community-dwelling older and oldest people.