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2. Your biggest questions about strokes, answered - AOL

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   Heart disease: Problems with your heart and arteries can increase your risk of plaque buildup or blood clots that can cause a stroke. Diabetes: High blood sugar can cause damage to blood vessels ...

3. Vascular dementia - Wikipedia

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   Stroke-related dementia involving successive small strokes causes a more gradual decline in cognition. [4] Dementia may occur when neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular pathologies are mixed, as in susceptible elderly people (75 years and older). [2] [5] Cognitive decline can be traced back to occurrence of successive strokes. [4]

4. Silent stroke - Wikipedia

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   A silent stroke (or asymptomatic cerebral infarction) is a stroke that does not have any outward symptoms associated with stroke, and the patient is typically unaware they have suffered a stroke. Despite not causing identifiable symptoms, a silent stroke still causes damage to the brain and places the patient at increased risk for both ...

5. Memory disorder - Wikipedia

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   Brain injuries can also be the result of a stroke as the resulting lack of oxygen can cause damage to the location of the cerebrovascular accident (CVA). The effects of a CVA in the left and right hemispheres of the brain include short-term memory impairment, and difficulty acquiring and retaining new information. [11]

6. Study identifies 11 strong predictors for dementia that may ...

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   A new report has identified several factors that can strongly predict at age 60 if people will develop dementia by 80, including having diabetes, not exercising, having a stroke, and not engaging ...

7. Stroke presents differently in women than men. Here are 7 ...

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   Finally, pregnancy can triple the risk of stroke in young women, said Miller. This is because 10% of pregnant people in the United States develop a blood pressure condition called preeclampsia ...

8. Binswanger's disease - Wikipedia

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   This disease is characterized by loss of memory and intellectual function and by changes in mood. These changes encompass what are known as executive functions of the brain. [ 4 ] It usually presents between 54 and 66 years of age, and the first symptoms are usually mental deterioration or stroke.

9. Aging white matter in the brain may affect stroke recovery ...

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   A new study examines how age-related brain changes could be linked to stroke recovery. Researchers suggest areas of age-related damage to parts of the brain containing white matter may influence ...