With your elevated chances of dementia post stroke, your competent? doctor is responsible for preventing that! Have they taken on that responsibility? Or are they DOING NOTHING?
With your chances of getting dementia post stroke, you need prevention solutions. YOUR DOCTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PREVENTING 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
The latest here:
Alzheimer's can be diagnosed after visit to an eye doctor - key sign to look out for
Experts have revealed that one visual symptom can help doctors predict Alzheimer's disease.
A team led by UC San Francisco has identified several visual symptoms linked to a degenerative visual condition found in Alzheimer's patients. Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), also known as Benson's syndrome, often signals the onset of Alzheimer's disease. It can be diagnosed by an eye doctor if they know what to look for. Symptoms include trouble with spatial judgment, difficulty identifying movement, and problems performing everyday tasks.
Despite
normal eye exams, this disorder is often missed. The researchers aimed
to "improve PCA characterization and recommendations." The study,
published in Lancet Neurology, involved data from over 1,000 patients
across 36 sites in 16 countries. It focused on a lesser-known aspect of
Alzheimer's that affects visual processing.
The researchers found that PCA overwhelmingly predicts Alzheimer's. Some 94 percent of PCA patients had Alzheimer's symptoms or a diagnosis, while the remaining 6 percent had conditions like Lewy body disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
General thinking skills aren't usually affected early in PCA, but mild dementia symptoms often show up by the time patients are diagnosed. This is typically nearly four years after symptoms first appear. The average age of PCA onset is 59, which is younger than when memory symptoms linked to it start showing, making diagnosis tricky. Dr. Marianne Chapleau from UCSF's Department of Neurology emphasised the need for better diagnostic tools for PCA.
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