Memory Loss May Signal Stroke Risk - National Stroke Association

Memory Loss May Signal Stroke Risk
Saturday, February 12, 2011

UPI.com

Memory problems and other cognitive declines may signal increased stroke risk, a U.S. researcher says.

Abraham Letter of the University of Alabama at Birmingham says those who scored in the bottom 20 percent on the memory test were 3.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those scoring in the top 20 percent.

Letter and colleagues also found at age 50, those who scored in the bottom 20 percent of the memory test were 9.4 times more likely to later have a stroke than those in the top 20 percent, but the difference was not as large at older ages.