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The goal of this observational study is to learn about cognitive outcomes in stroke patients. The main question it aims to answer are: 1. Is blood-brain barrier permeability compromised for years after stroke, 2. Is a blood biomarker of imbalanced angiogenesis dysregulated in chronic stroke and 3. Are there biomarkers that separately or together predicts cognitive decline after stroke, and are other MRI, blood, and clinical characteristics that are associated. Participants will undergo cognitive testing and MRIs two years apart. Researchers will compare cognitive outcomes in non-stroke patients who have cardiovascular risk factors to understand the effects of stroke on these outcomes.
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Post-stroke dementia is an important and understudied component of the vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia. Having a stroke approximately doubles the risk of incident dementia for at least a decade afterwards, even after accounting for other vascular risk factors of dementia and the initial effects of the stroke lesion on cognition. Also, silent strokes occur in nearly half of all aging individuals and are associated with dementia. It has been established in wildtype mice that stroke triggers chronic neuroinflammation in the stroke scar and connected brain regions, and that this causes delayed-onset cognitive decline. In humans, there is neuroinflammation in the stroke scar in about half of all chronic stroke survivors on autopsy, even decades after stroke, suggesting it may play a role in people as well. However, there are no biomarkers that can currently be used in living humans to detect who is at risk of cognitive decline and dementia after stroke. The hypothesis to be tested is that inflammation-induced angiogenesis in the stroke and connected regions results in immature leaky vessels that cause blood-brain barrier leakage even very late after stroke. The goal is to establish that there is chronic blood-brain barrier dysfunction after stroke and a dysregulated angiogenesis as a potential mechanism. This would be a fundamental change in how post-stroke dementia is conceptualized and would open avenues for novel therapy development. This will also help better understand vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia.
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350 participants in 2 patient groups
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Muhith Musabbir
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