The impact of cognitive impairment on patients

The presence of cognitive impairment after stroke is a predictor of poor patient outcomes including risk of death and greater disability, irrespective of the presence of dementia.^1-3

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2.Douiri A, Rudd AG, Wolfe CD. Prevalence of poststroke cognitive impairment: South London stroke register 1995–2010. Stroke 2013; 44 (1): 138–145.

3.Narasimhalu K, Ang S, De Silva DA, et al. The prognostic effects of poststroke cognitive impairment no dementia and domain-specific cognitive impairments in nondisabled ischemic stroke patients. Stroke 2011; 42 (4): 883–888.