Montreal cognitive assessment moca5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() It is usually administered to patients with a mild stroke. ![]() MoCA has been shown to be reliable in patients with stroke during the acute and subacute phases due to its ease of use and high sensitivity in the evaluation of executive functions. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) have been recommended as an appropriate cognitive screening test to be applied in stroke units. Cognitive impairment may impede stroke recovery, and therefore early screening of cognitive function is recommended for these patients. Furthermore, it has been reported that advanced age and severe stroke may act as further risk factors for PSCI and cognitive decline after stroke. Several cognitive domains, including memory, language, visuospatial, and executive abilities, can be affected by stroke and are the most common deficits observed in patients in the first few months after stroke when assessed with standardized measures. Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is defined as the development of a new cognitive deficit within the first 3 months after stroke that persists for at least 6 months and is not related to conditions other than stroke. A major but often neglected consequence of stroke is cognitive impairment, especially in the first few weeks following the vascular event. Therefore, much attention has been paid to the long-term residual disabilities that affect stroke survivors. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Īlthough the mortality rate of stroke is gradually decreasing, it remains a major cause of disability worldwide. Researchers can submit data requests to the authors ( or head of rehabilitation medicine research group, Professor Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen ( Swedish State under an agreement between the Swedish government and county councils, ALF agreement (ALFGBG-877961), Swedish National Stroke Association, Local Research and Development Board for Gothenburg and Södra Bohuslän (VGFOUGSB-977390), Doctor Felix Neubergh’s foundation, Greta and Einar Asker's Foundation, Rune and Ulla Almöv's Foundation for Neurological Research, Hjalmar Svensson's Research Foundation, P-O Ahl & J-B Wennerström's foundation, Herbert & Karin Jacobsson’s foundation, Iris Foundation, Inger Bendix’s foundation for medical research, the Swedish Stroke Association. According to the Swedish Ethical Review Authority ( ), the datasets generated in this study cannot be made publicly available for ethical and legal reasons. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Data contain potentially identifying or sensitive patient information. Received: JAccepted: MaPublished: March 29, 2023Ĭopyright: © 2023 Zanin et al. PLoS ONE 18(3):Įditor: Karsten Witt, Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, GERMANY Citation: Zanin A, Reinholdsson M, Abzhandadze T (2023) Association of cognitive function very early after stroke with subjective cognitive complaints after 3 months, a register-based study. ![]()
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