📰🧠🔬 STROKE STUDY HIGHLIGHTS – Development and validation of standard-criteria and age-corrected nomograms for post-stroke cognitive impairment risk stratification by Penghui Li, et al.

How can we predict which stroke patients are most at risk for cognitive decline?

This study suggests two scoring models to estimate which subjects are most likely to develop cognitive impairments such as difficulties with memory, attention, or planning, six months after an ischemic stroke.

Both models identified five important predictors:

• Older age
• Female sex
• Elevated LDL cholesterol
• Infarction in a brain region important for cognition
• Moderate-to-severe global cortical atrophy on brain imaging

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀: dels could help clinicians identify stroke patients who may benefit from early cognitive assessment, closer monitoring, and personalized rehabilitation.

📄 Access the full article at: Li, P., Li, F., Tan, L., Hao, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, L., & Huang, Y. (2026). Development and validation of standard-criteria and age-corrected nomograms for post-stroke cognitive impairment risk stratification. PeerJ, 14, e21050. https://peerj.com/articles/21050/. This is an open-access article under a CC BY 4.0 license.