Deans' stroke musings: Poststroke dementia

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, April 26, 2022

Poststroke dementia—an underestimated burden?

Well, all this earlier research was out there. Did you miss it?

Your risks of dementia, has your doctor told you of this?

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

Where are the protocols to prevent your dementia?

Poststroke dementia—an underestimated burden?

Sandra Black

Nature Reviews Neurology volume 6, pages 302–304 (2010)Cite this article

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The burden of cerebrovascular disease is thought to be greater than current official estimates. A new systematic review shows that a history of stroke is associated with an increased risk of incident dementia in the elderly. The findings also highlight the confusion in the classification of dementia and the need for more recognition of vascular-related cognitive disorders.

Senior citizens have a 33% lifetime risk of stroke, dementia or both.¹ MRI studies in the elderly suggest that the age-associated burden of cerebrovascular disease is greater than is clinically apparent. Cerebrovascular disease is accelerated by vascular risk factors and, ironically, by improved survival from heart attack and stroke, and the disease is often underappreciated in dementia diagnosis. A high prevalence of covert lacunes and periventricular white matter disease has been reported in the elderly (25% and 95%, respectively, in people aged >65 years),^2,3 and these common vascular pathologies have been shown to increase the risk of overt stroke and dementia.^4,5

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