Deans' stroke musings: Prevalence of depression and cognitive impairment and their inter-relationship and association with quality of life among older stroke survivors: the findings of a national survey in China

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.

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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.

Friday, July 11, 2025

Prevalence of depression and cognitive impairment and their inter-relationship and association with quality of life among older stroke survivors: the findings of a national survey in China

The OBVIOUS SOLUTION IS 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS! If your researchers aren't working on that, they need to be fired!

Prevalence of depression and cognitive impairment and their inter-relationship and association with quality of life among older stroke survivors: the findings of a national survey in China

July 2025
Stroke and Vascular Neurology

DOI:10.1136/svn-2024-003623

License
CC BY-NC 4.0

Authors:

Background Post-stroke depression (PSD) and post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) are prevalent neuropsychiatric problems that are associated with high disability burden and low quality of life (QoL). This study explored the PSD-PSCI network, along with the interaction and association with QoL among Chinese older stroke survivors. Methods Data from the 2017–2018 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey were obtained to investigate the inter-relationship between PSD and PSCI among older stroke survivors. Central and bridge symptoms within the PSD-PSCI network and their association with QoL were explored. Depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment and QoL were measured using the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10), Mini-Mental State Examination and the WHO QoL-brief version, respectively. Results The prevalence of PSD and PSCI among older stroke survivors was 31.5% and 22.1%, respectively. In the PSD-PSCI network, ‘feeling blue/depressed’ (CESD3, strength: 1.117) and ‘Attention and calculation’ (At_C, strength: 0.972) were the most influential symptoms, while ‘Naming’ (Nam, bridge strength: 0.175) was the most significant bridge symptom. Notably, ‘Sleep disturbances’ (CESD10) had the strongest association with lower QoL. Conclusion This study revealed that both PSD and PSCI were prevalent among older stroke survivors. The key central and bridge symptoms in the PSD-PSCI network, along with those symptoms that negatively impact on QoL, should be prioritised in targeted interventions to enhance treatment outcomes in this population.

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