Incidence of Brain Infarcts, Cognitive Change, and Risk of Dementia in the General Population [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—Men are at greater risk of developing incident brain infarcts than women. Persons with incident brain infarcts decline faster in cognition and have an increased risk of dementia compared with those free of infarcts. Incident subcortical infarcts contribute more than cortical and cerebellar infarcts to incident dementia which may indicate that infarcts of small vessel disease origin contribute more to the development of dementia than infarcts of embolic origin in larger vessels.

Source: Stroke - August 28, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Thor Aspelund, Olafur Kjartansson, Elias F. Gudmundsson, Maria K. Jonsdottir, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Palmi V. Jonsson, Mark A. van Buchem, Vilmundur Gudnason, Lenore J. Launer Tags: Epidemiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ischemic Stroke, Vascular Disease Original Contributions Source Type: research