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Dementia may impede stroke recovery

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay

People with dementia who suffer a stroke are more likely to be disabled and less likely to return home than stroke patients who didn't have dementia, a new study finds.

Researchers looked at 702 people who had dementia at the time they had a stroke and 8,602 patients without dementia who had a stroke.

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