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STROKE
Volume 37, Issue 9, Pages 2220-2241Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000237236.88823.47
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Binswangers disease; CADASIL; syndrome; cerebral infarction; cerebrovascular disorders; dementia; genetics; ischemia; lacunar infarction; leukoaraiosis; neuropsychology; stroke; vascular dementia
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- Medical Research Council [G0500247] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS017950] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS017950] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- MRC [G0500247] Funding Source: UKRI
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Background and Purpose-One in 3 individuals will experience a stroke, dementia or both. Moreover, twice as many individuals will have cognitive impairment short of dementia as either stroke or dementia. The commonly used stroke scales do not measure cognition, while dementia criteria focus on the late stages of cognitive impairment, and are heavily biased toward the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease. No commonly agreed standards exist for identifying and describing individuals with cognitive impairment, particularly in the early stages, and especially with cognitive impairment related to vascular factors, or vascular cognitive impairment. Methods-The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) convened researchers in clinical diagnosis, epidemiology, neuropsychology, brain imaging, neuropathology, experimental models, biomarkers, genetics, and clinical trials to recommend minimum, common, clinical and research standards for the description and study of vascular cognitive impairment. Results-The results of these discussions are reported herein. Conclusions-The development of common standards represents a first step in a process of use, validation and refinement. Using the same standards will help identify individuals in the early stages of cognitive impairment, will make studies comparable, and by integrating knowledge, will accelerate the pace of progress.
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