Executive and memory dysfunction related to binge drinking in stroke survivors during a 9-year follow-up.

Background: Ischemic stroke and heavy alcohol consumption are both known risk factors for cognitive impairment. The issue gains importance because the prevalence of stroke and binge drinking have both increased among working-aged adults. Alarmingly, a recent cross-sectional study suggests the additive negative effects of binge drinking and comorbid brain disease on cognition.

Memory decline in young stroke survivors during a 9-year follow-up: A cohort study.

Introduction: A decade after stroke, young stroke survivors continue to suffer from cognitive impairment. However, it is not known whether this long-term cognitive outcome is caused in part by further cognitive decline or solely by incomplete recovery from the acute effects of ischemic stroke. We studied changes in three cognitive domains over a 9-year follow-up period after first-ever and only ischemic stroke.

Executive Dysfunction Related to Binge Drinking in Ischemic Stroke.

Background: Recent evidence has shown that cognitive dysfunction is associated with a history of binge drinking in adolescents who do not have an alcohol use disorder. Most previous studies with adults, however, have failed to show a link between cognitive dysfunction and subdiagnostic binge drinking, nor have any studies investigated the additive cognitive effect of binge drinking to ischemic stroke.

Objective: To examine whether a pattern of cognitive dysfunction, especially executive and memory dysfunction, in patients with a first-ever ischemic stroke is associated with a history of subdiagnostic binge drinking.

Domain-Specific Cognitive Recovery after First-Ever Stroke: A 2-Year Follow-Up.

Objectives: The aim of this work was to study the change in different cognitive domains after stroke during a 2-year follow-up.

Method: We evaluated both neuropsychologically and neurologically a consecutive cohort of working-age patients with a first-ever stroke at baseline (within the first weeks), 6 months, and 2 years after stroke-onset. A total of 153 patients participated in all examinations and were compared to 50 healthy controls.

Executive Impairment Is Associated with Impaired Memory Performance in Working-Aged Stroke Patients.

Objectives: Executive dysfunction is associated with impaired memory performance, but controversies remain about which aspects of memory are involved and how general intelligence influences these connections. We aimed to clarify these connections in stroke patients by comparing various memory measures in patients with and without executive impairment.

Methods: Our consecutive cohort included patients with a first-ever ischemic stroke.

Use of Stroke-Related Income Supplements and Predictors of Use in a Working-Aged Finnish Ischemic Stroke Cohort.

Background: Compared with the direct costs, the indirect costs of stroke may be larger contributors to the socioeconomic burden of stroke, and the need to better understand the indirect costs of stroke is well established. We investigated the indirect costs of stroke according to a novel outcome, the use of stroke-related income supplements, in a Finnish cohort of working-aged patients.

Methods: Consecutive patients (n = 230) who experienced a first-ever ischemic stroke were recruited.

The cognitive burden of stroke emerges even with an intact NIH Stroke Scale Score: a cohort study.

Background: We aim to facilitate recognition of the cognitive burden of stroke by describing the parallels between cognitive deficits and the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), a widely used measure of stroke severity.

Methods: A consecutive cohort of 223 working-age patients with an acute first-ever ischaemic stroke was assessed neuropsychologically within the first weeks after stroke and at a 6-months follow-up visit and compared with 50 healthy demographic controls. The NIHSS was administered at the time of hospital admittance and upon discharge from the acute care unit.

The severity of cognitive deficits predicts return to work after a first-ever ischaemic stroke.

Background: The inability of stroke patients to return to work contributes disproportionately to the socioeconomic impact of stroke and is best predicted by the severity of stroke. However, the role of cognitive deficits in stroke severity has not been scrutinised. We studied whether the initial cognitive severity of stroke, compared with other influential factors, predicts the inability to return to work after stroke.