What is it about?

To investigate hospital management (length of hospitalization, access to stroke care unit, diagnostic tests and assessments,...) of acute ischemic stroke in patients with and without dementia.

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Why is it important?

Previous studies have shown that patients with dementia receive less testing and treatment for stroke.

Perspectives

Patients should not be excluded from post-stroke investigations and rehabilitation solely because of dementia diagnosis, until dementia-specific risks are characterized.

Eva Zupanic
Department on Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

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This page is a summary of: Acute Stroke Care in Dementia: A Cohort Study from the Swedish Dementia and Stroke Registries, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, October 2018, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jad-180653.
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