Study: 10-minute cognitive test MoCA helps predict long-term motor, cognitive and mortality outcomes after stroke

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/10/19/study-10-minute-cognitive-test-moca-helps-predict-long-term-motor-cognitive-and-mortality-outcomes-after-stroke/

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Simple test may help predict long-term outcome after stroke (Science Daily):

“We found that this test, which takes less than 10 minutes, can help predict whether people will have impaired thinking skills, problems that keep them from performing daily tasks such as bathing and dressing and even whether they will be more likely to die,” said study author Martin Dichgans, MD, of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany…The study found that those who had thinking problems within one week of the stroke were seven times more likely to die during the three years of the study than those who did not have thinking problems. The survival rat…

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/10/19/study-10-minute-cognitive-test-moca-helps-predict-long-term-motor-cognitive-and-mortality-outcomes-after-stroke/

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Simple test may help predict long-term outcome after stroke (Science Daily):

“We found that this test, which takes less than 10 minutes, can help predict whether people will have impaired thinking skills, problems that keep them from performing daily tasks such as bathing and dressing and even whether they will be more likely to die,” said study author Martin Dichgans, MD, of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany…The study found that those who had thinking problems within one week of the stroke were seven times more likely to die during the three years of the study than those who did not have thinking problems. The survival rat…

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