Vasileios Giannopapas, Konstantina Stavrogianni, Niki Christouli, Dimitrios Kitsos, Eleni Sideri, Daphne Bakalidou, Konstantinos Voumvourakis, Georgia Papagiannopoulou, John Tzartos, Georgios Paraskevas, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Sotirios Giannopoulos
INTRODUCTION: Cognitive impairment is a core symptom of multiple sclerosis, leading to disability in 40-70% of patients. The most common cognitive domains affected by MS are information processing speed, complex attention, executive functions and less frequently, episodic declarative memory. Cardiovascular disease comorbidities have been shown to increase the decline rate in many neurological conditions. Our study aims to examine the possible impact of CVD risk factors in the cognitive decline rate of PwMS...
April 7, 2023: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia