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SUBMITTER: Levine DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6419761 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stroke 20180316 4
<h4>Background and purpose</h4>Poststroke cognitive decline causes disability. Risk factors for poststroke cognitive decline independent of survivors' prestroke cognitive trajectories are uncertain.<h4>Methods</h4>Among 22 875 participants aged ≥45 years without baseline cognitive impairment from the REGARDS cohort (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke), enrolled from 2003 to 2007 and followed through September 2015, we measured the effect of incident stroke (n=694) on changes ...[more]