Fibrinogen concentrations predict long-term cognitive outcome in young ischemic stroke patients.

Background: Cognitive impairment is frequent after stroke, and young patients may live with this consequence for a long time. Predictors of cognitive outcomes after stroke represent a current gap of knowledge.

Objectives: To investigate levels of three hemostatic biomarkers as predictors of long-term cognitive function after stroke.

Long-term cost of spouses' informal support for dependent midlife stroke survivors.

Objectives: Stroke is a major global disease that requires extensive care and support from society and relatives. The aim of this study was to identify and quantify the long-term informal support and to estimate the annual cost of informal support provided by spouses to their stroke surviving partner.

Method: Data were based on the 7-year follow-up of the Sahlgrenska Academy Study on Ischemic Stroke.