Early-onset and delayed-onset poststroke dementia-revisiting the mechanisms

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 148-159

  Mok, Vincent C T ^a   Lam, Bonnie Y K ^a   Wong, Adrian ^a   Ko, Ho ^a   Markus, Hugh S ^b   Wong, Lawrence K S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DELAYED ONSET POSTSTROKE DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY ONSET POSTSTROKE DEMENTIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; COMPLICATION; TIME FACTOR;

DEMENTIA; HUMANS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85013074198     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.16     Document Type: Review

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