(Stroke. 1999;30:1542-1547.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.
Original Contributions |
Increased Thromboxane Biosynthesis Is Associated With Poststroke Dementia
From the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Rotterdam (F. v K., P.J.K.), Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the Departments of Pharmacology, Catholic University School of Medicine (G.C.), Rome, and University of Chieti "G. D'Annunzio" (C.P.), Chieti, Italy; and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School (D.E.G.), Rotterdam, Julius Center for Patient Oriented Research, Utrecht University (D.E.G.), Utrecht, and Gaubius Laboratory, TNO-PG (C.K.), Leiden, the Netherlands.
Correspondence to Fop van Kooten, MD, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Rotterdam Dijkzigt, 40 Dr Molewaterplein, 3015 GD Rotterdam, Netherlands. E-mail vankooten{at}neuro.fgg.eur.nl
 |
Abstract |
|---|
 Top Abstract IntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
Background and Purpose—It has been suggested that daily intake of aspirin is associated with a reduction of cognitive decline, both in normal and in demented subjects, but the mechanism is unclear. We have therefore studied the relationship between thromboxane (TX) A2 biosynthesis, as reflected by the urinary excretion of 11-dehydro-TXB2, and the presence of dementia in patients after acute stroke.
Methods—Patients from the Rotterdam Stroke Databank were screened for dementia between 3 and 9 months after stroke. Patients had a full neurological examination, neuropsychological screening, and, if indicated, extensive neuropsychological examination. Criteria used for the diagnosis of dementia were from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (Revised). Urine samples were taken at the time of screening. Urinary 11-dehydro-TXB2 was measured by means of a previously validated radioimmunoassay.
Results—Dementia was diagnosed in 71 patients, and urine samples were available for 62. Median value (range) of 11-dehydro-TXB2 was 399 (89 to 2105) pmol/mmol creatinine for demented patients versus 273 (80 to 1957) for 69 controls with stroke but without dementia (P=0.013). No difference was found between 44 patients with vascular dementia, 404 (89 to 2105) pmol/mmol creatinine, and 18 patients with Alzheimer's disease plus cerebrovascular disease, 399 (96 to 1467) pmol/mmol creatinine (P=0.68). In a stepwise logistic regression analysis, in which possible confounders such as use of antiplatelet medication, cardiovascular risk factors, and type of stroke were taken into account, increased urinary excretion of 11-dehydro-TXB2 remained independently related to the presence of dementia (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.22 per 100 pmol/mmol creatinine). The difference in metabolite excretion rates between demented and nondemented patients was most prominent within the subgroup of ischemic stroke patients who received aspirin (P<0.01).
Conclusions—Increased thromboxane biosynthesis in the chronic phase after stroke is associated with the presence of but not the type of poststroke dementia. It is particularly apparent in patients on aspirin, thereby suggesting the involvement of extraplatelet sources of TXA2 production in this setting.
Key Words: cyclooxygenase • dementia • platelets • stroke • thromboxanes
|
Introduction |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
Dementia is one of the most important causes of disability in the elderly. The increased aging of the population calls for strategies that reduce both the occurrence and severity of dementia in order to lighten the burden on society in terms of health care, disability, and hospital and institutional care. It has been estimated that in 10% to 40% of all demented patients, vascular lesions or thromboembolic processes represent the identifiable cause of dementia.1 Several studies2 3 4 5 6 7 have addressed the hypothesis that aspirin might have a beneficial effect on the occurrence and progression of dementia and on cognitive function in general. In one randomized trial, patients with multi-infarct dementia benefited from aspirin therapy, with improvement of cognitive performance scores and cerebral perfusion values.2 This study, however, was not placebo controlled. In another trial, subjects at high risk for cardiovascular disease showed better cognitive performance after 5 years of treatment with antithrombotic therapy (ie, aspirin, warfarin, or both) than those treated with placebo.5 The effect, however, was small, and the patients studied represented a subgroup from a trial that was designed for another purpose. In 2 nonrandomized, population-based studies, either no effect of aspirin on cognitive function was found at all6 7 or a small, not statistically significant, positive effect was reported.4 Finally, a positive effect on cognitive performance of NSAIDs or aspirin was reported in patients diagnosed with possible or probable Alzheimer's disease.3
These studies suggest a positive effect of aspirin treatment on cognitive performance, in both demented patients and otherwise healthy elderly subjects. The evidence, however, is scarce; the effect, if any, is modest; and the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Aspirin may be beneficial through its antiplatelet effect,8 by preventing recurrent cerebral infarcts, or through its anti-inflammatory properties. The dose requirement for the apparent beneficial effect of aspirin on cognitive performance would favor the antiplatelet effect as the most likely explanation. In a previous study, we reported an association between platelet activation, as reflected by thromboxane metabolite excretion, in the acute phase of stroke and stroke severity.9 There was also a nonsignificant trend for enhanced platelet activation in patients with the worst 3-month outcome as measured on the Rankin scale, a handicap scale that reflects the degree of independence of the patient, taking cognitive performance into account.
In this study, we have prospectively investigated the relationship between in vivo thromboxane biosynthesis during the chronic phase after stroke and the presence of poststroke dementia.
|
Subjects and Methods |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
Study Patients
Patients were recruited from the Rotterdam Stroke Databank, a prospective registry of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA), ischemic stroke, or a primary intracerebral hemorrhage, admitted to the department of Neurology of the Dijkzigt University Hospital Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From March 1, 1993 until January 15, 1996, 825 consecutive patients were entered into this registry, of whom 300 met the entry criteria for the Dutch Vascular Factors in Dementia Study.10 Patients had to be 55 years or older, and they had to be admitted to our neurology ward with a TIA, cerebral infarction or intracerebral hemorrhage. Reasons for exclusion were, in short, as follows: 24% were too young, 15% died within 3 months after stroke, 6% did not give consent, 5% had had a TIA and no neurological signs on examination, 4% moved out of the region, 5% were untestable because of severe aphasia, 2% were not native Dutch speakers, and 3% were excluded for various other reasons. Of the remaining 300 patients, 71 were demented, and in 62 of these urinary samples were available for thromboxane metabolite measurements. Seventy-one control patients, including patients with TIA, ischemic stroke, and intracerebral hemorrhage, who were frequency matched for age and sex, were randomly taken from the 229 nondemented stroke and TIA patients. Urinary samples were available from 69 of the 71 control subjects. All patients were screened according to a strict protocol consisting of a full neurological examination, standardized blood tests, at least 1 and usually 2 CT scans of the brain, duplex scanning of the carotid arteries, and a cardiological analysis that included standard 12-lead ECG and, if indicated, 24-hour ECG monitoring and echocardiography. The nature and time course of the symptoms were recorded by means of a detailed checklist.11 Patients with a cerebral infarction were further subdivided according to a clinical classification: Total anterior circulation stroke, partial anterior circulation stroke, lacunar stroke, and posterior circulation stroke.12 Apart from the neurological history, the following vascular risk factors were recorded: smoking habits, hypercholesterolemia (history of hypercholesterolemia and/or fasting total cholesterol level >6.5 mmol/L),13 hypertension (history of hypertension and/or systolic blood pressure >160 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure >90 mm Hg, treated or not), diabetes mellitus (history of diabetes mellitus type I or II and/or a random blood glucose of 8 mmol/L together with an HbA1c level of 6.30% or more, treated or not),14 atrial fibrillation (history of atrial fibrillation and/or atrial fibrillation on ECG), and a history of intermittent claudication, angina pectoris, prior myocardial infarction, retinal infarction, or stroke. We recorded the medication, especially antiplatelet and anticoagulant treatment, taken by the patients at the time of urinary sampling, which was between 3 and 9 months after the onset of stroke. As customary in the Netherlands, the vast majority of patients in our study were treated with a dose of 30 mg of aspirin daily. Only patients with a cardiac indication for aspirin (n=16) were treated with a higher dose, varying between 80 and 100 mg daily. Nine patients used NSAIDs on a regular but not daily basis. Eight of these 9 were also using aspirin, and only 1 used NSAIDs and no aspirin. In the analysis, this patient was grouped in the nonaspirin group.
Five patients with cerebral ischemia as qualifying event were not treated with antithrombotic medication at the time of assessment. One of them had a thrombocytopenia, which prevented aspirin treatment; the other 4 had recurrent systemic bleedings (3 had gastric bleeding and 1 recurrent urinary tract bleeding). On the other hand, 5 patients with an intracerebral hemorrhage as qualifying event received antithrombotic treatment at the time of assessment, because they already had an indication for antithrombotic treatment before their hemorrhage. In 1 patient, oral anticoagulant treatment was restarted in the chronic phase after the bleeding because of a prosthetic aortic valve. In 2 patients with atrial fibrillation, 1 with a history of TIA and 1 a history of recurrent myocardial infarction, aspirin was started in the chronic phase after oral anticoagulant treatment was stopped in the acute phase of the hemorrhage. In 2 patients with a history of TIA, aspirin was restarted in the chronic phase.
Assessment of Cognitive Function and Dementia
Premorbid cognitive function was assessed by means of an
interview with a close informant and the score on the Blessed Dementia
Scale.15 Cognitive function was assessed through a
neurological examination and by a series of neuropsychological
screening instruments between 3 and 9 months after onset of stroke. We
performed the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE),16
Geriatric Mental Status organic scale,17 and the
Dutch version of the cognitive and self contained part of the Cambridge
Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly, the
CAMCOG.18 In patients in whom dementia was clinically
suspected, extensive neuropsychological evaluation was performed. Based
on information from a close relative, the results of extensive
neuropsychological evaluation, and the clinical impression on
examination, the diagnosis of dementia was assessed by a
diagnostic panel that consisted of a neuropsychologist, 2
neurologists, and a physician of the Rotterdam Stroke Databank. For the
diagnosis of dementia, the DSM-III-R criteria19 were
applied. The NINDS-AIREN research criteria20 were used to
distinguish between patients with vascular dementia and those with
Alzheimer's disease plus cerebrovascular disease. The
latter were patients with progressive cognitive deterioration existing
before the onset of stroke, without a history or signs of
cerebrovascular disease until the present stroke occurred, thus
fulfilling the clinical criteria for possible Alzheimer's
disease.21 The degree of handicap was also assessed
between 3 and 9 months after onset of stroke by means of the modified
Rankin scale.22
Measurements of Thromboxane Biosynthesis
Urine samples were collected 3 to 9 months after stroke, thus
avoiding short-term fluctuations in thromboxane
biosynthesis related to the acute phase of stroke.9 23 The
creatinine concentration was measured, and samples of 50 mL
were immediately frozen and stored at -20°C until extraction.
Analytical measurements of 11-dehydro-TXB2, a
major enzymatic metabolite of TXB2 in humans,
were performed with blinding to the diagnosis of dementia.
Immunoreactive 11-dehydro-TXB2 was extracted from
10-mL aliquots of each coded urine sample (the pH was adjusted to 4.0
with formic acid) on SEP-PAK C18 cartridges (Waters Associates) and
eluted with ethyl acetate. The eluates were subjected to silicic acid
column chromatography and further eluted with
benzene/ethyl acetate/methanol (60:40:30, vol/vol). Immunoreactive
11-dehydro-TXB2 eluted from silicic acid columns
was assayed at a final dilution of 1:30 to 1:1000, as described
previously.24 The urinary excretion rate of
11-dehydro-TXB2 was expressed as picomoles per
millimole of creatinine.
Statistical Analysis
Data were analyzed by means of the Statistical Package
for the Social Sciences (SPSS Inc) and Egret statistical software.
Values of 11-dehydro-TXB2 between groups were
compared with the Mann-Whitney U test. Differences in
baseline characteristics between demented and nondemented patients were
compared with use of the Student t test,
2 test, and Fisher exact test where
appropriate. Values of P<0.05 (2-sided testing) were
considered statistically significant. A logistic regression
analysis, in which potential confounders such as age, gender,
use of antiplatelet medication, cardiovascular risk
factors (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia,
atrial fibrillation, smoking habit), and type and site and of
stroke were taken into account, was performed to investigate whether
11-dehydro-TXB2 was independently related to the
presence of dementia.
|
Results |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
Dementia was diagnosed in 71 (23.7%) of the 300 stroke patients. Three (6.5%), 54 (25%), and 14 (39%) of the patients with TIA, ischemic stroke, and intracerebral hemorrhage, respectively, were demented. Patients with an intracerebral hemorrhage had a higher risk of dementia (OR 2.31, 95% CI 1.04 to 5.08) and patients with TIA a lower risk (OR 0.19, 95% CI 0.06 to 0.67). The mean age of the demented patients was 73.3±7.7 years and that of the nondemented patients 62.8±8.0 years (P<0.001). Of the demented patients, 52% were female compared with 37% of the controls (P=0.03).
Urine samples were available from 62 demented patients and 69 controls.
Table 1
shows the baseline
characteristics in relation to dementia for both groups. No
statistically significant differences in age, gender, type of stroke,
and clinical subtype of cerebral infarction existed between the 2
groups, although patients with TIA were numerically more frequent in
the control group and more patients with intracerebral
hemorrhage were present in the group with dementia.
Patients who used neither oral anticoagulant nor antiplatelet
medication were more frequent in the dementia group
(P=0.03). However, no statistically significant difference
existed between the 2 groups in the numbers of patients using aspirin
or anticoagulant medication.
|
Patients with dementia had a significantly higher
11-dehydro-TXB2 excretion (median 399, range 89
to 2105 pmol/mmol creatinine) than nondemented patients,
(median 273, range 80 to 1957, P=0.01), as detailed in Table 2. No difference in
11-dehydro-TXB2 excretion was found between the 2
major types of dementia median 404, range 89 to 2105 pmol/mmol
creatinine for vascular dementia and median 399, range 96
to 1467 for Alzheimer's disease plus cerebrovascular disease.
Impaired performance on cognitive screening tests was
associated with increased 11-dehydro-TXB2
excretion (P=0.003 for the MMSE and P=0.03 for
the CAMCOG). The correlation, however, between cognitive scores and
level of 11-dehydro-TXB2 was only modest:
r2=0.10 (P<0.001) and
r2=0.05 (P<0.001) for MMSE
and CAMCOG, respectively. Patients with severe strokes, defined as a
Rankin scale score of >3 at follow-up, had significantly higher
metabolite excretion levels than patients with minor stroke
(P=0.0002). The group of patients treated with aspirin had
significant lower excretion levels of
11-dehydro-TXB2 than untreated patients
(P<0.0001).
|
Because aspirin treatment has a major impact on urinary
11-dehydro-TXB2, by largely suppressing
platelet TXA2
biosynthesis8 we investigated the relationship
between metabolite excretion and dementia both in the presence and in
the absence of aspirin therapy. To avoid an imbalance in the subgroups,
patients with an intracerebral hemorrhage were
excluded, because almost none of them used aspirin. The Figure depicts
the individual values, with and without aspirin, of
11-dehydro-TXB2 for patients with cerebral
ischemia. Only in the aspirin group were
11-dehydro-TXB2 excretion rates significantly
higher in demented patients than in controls (P=0.01). When
hemorrhagic stroke patients were added, the results remained the same
(P=0.007). In patients not on aspirin therapy, the median
values were 494 (range 167 to 1957), and 431 (range 105 to 2105), for
nondemented and demented patients, respectively (P=0.73).
For the aspirin group the corresponding values were 196 (range 80 to
631) and 290 (range 89 to 1935), respectively (P=0.01).
Thus, in patients who did not have dementia at follow-up, aspirin
treatment was associated with 60% lower rate of
thromboxane biosynthesis than in the absence of
antiplatelet therapy, and only 2 of 39 aspirin-treated subjects had
metabolite excretion in excess of the median value of untreated
subjects. In contrast, in patients who were demented at follow-up,
aspirin treatment was associated with a 33% lower rate of
TXA2 biosynthesis, and 13 of 35 treated subjects
had metabolite excretion in excess of the median value of untreated
subjects. However, no firm conclusions can be drawn because of the
relatively small numbers and the large variability.
|
In the logistic regression analysis, increased urinary excretion of 11-dehydro-TXB2 remained independently related to the presence of dementia, with an OR of 1.12 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.22) per 100 pmol/mmol creatinine.
|
Discussion |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
The main finding of the present study is that patients with poststroke dementia more often show increased thromboxane biosynthesis than nondemented controls. Elevated levels of circulating platelet microparticles have been described earlier in a small study of patients with multi-infarct dementia.25 However, the interpretation of blood indexes of platelet activation is hampered by sampling-related artifacts.26
Among other factors associated with increased 11-dehydro-TXB2 in our univariate analysis were atrial fibrillation, unfavorable outcome, and absence of antiplatelet treatment, which is consistent with the results of a previous study in patients with acute ischemic stroke.9 Atrial fibrillation was also identified as risk factor for dementia in a population-based study27 as well as in a stroke population.28 However, in a multiple logistic regression analysis in which these confounders were taken into account, increased urinary excretion of 11-dehydro-TXB2 remained independently related to the presence of dementia.
Increased thromboxane biosynthesis may also reflect severe vascular disease, which may lead to dementia. However, this seems unlikely in light of a recent study in patients with peripheral arterial disease,29 which has clearly demonstrated that vascular disease per se is not associated with enhanced thromboxane biosynthesis.
The role of aspirin in our setting remains puzzling, because the association between dementia and increased thromboxane biosynthesis was most prominent in patients with aspirin treatment. This may reflect the play of chance, because the subgroup analysis included a small number of patients. On the other hand, this finding may suggest that stroke patients who show increased thromboxane biosynthesis that cannot be completely suppressed by aspirin have an increased risk of dementia. This might imply that patients with poststroke dementia have an important aspirin-insensitive source of thromboxane biosynthesis. The involvement of prostaglandin H synthase-2 (cyclooxygenase [COX]-2) in producing the substrate for thromboxane synthase within the context of an ongoing inflammatory process in the brain would be compatible with this working hypothesis. Among the cell types endowed with thromboxane synthase and capable of expressing COX-2 in response to inflammatory cytokines and growth factors are monocytes and macrophages.30 Moreover, transcellular biosynthesis of TXA2 may occur through the biochemical cooperation of cells expressing COX-2 (eg, vascular endothelial cells) with aspirinated platelets.31 Aspirin is considerably less potent in inhibiting human monocyte COX-2 than platelet COX-1 activity.32 Thus, plasma aspirin concentrations achieved at conventional antiplatelet dosage are inadequate to suppress COX-2–dependent eicosanoid biosynthesis. Cipollone et al32 have recently reported that in unstable angina, episodes of aspirin-insensitive TXA2 biosynthesis may reflect extraplatelet sources possibly expressing COX-2 in response to a local inflammatory milieu. If the same mechanism is operative in the setting of cerebral ischemia and inflammation, this might explain the rather conflicting results obtained with aspirin in observational studies2 4 5 as well as the apparent protection against Alzheimer's disease associated with nonaspirin NSAIDs.3 These drugs (eg, ibuprofen) are equally potent in inhibiting human platelet COX-1 and monocyte COX-2.30
We conclude that (1) patients with poststroke dementia more often show increased thromboxane biosynthesis than nondemented stroke patients; (2) increased thromboxane biosynthesis is not associated with the type of poststroke dementia; and (3) the association between thromboxane biosynthesis and the presence of poststroke dementia is particularly apparent in patients on aspirin treatment, which suggests that patients with poststroke dementia have an aspirin-insensitive source of thromboxane biosynthesis, possibly related to COX-2 expression in the brain. The availability of specific COX-2 inhibitors offers the opportunity to test this hypothesis with a properly designed randomized trial.
|
Acknowledgments |
|---|
This study was supported by a grant from the European Union (BMH1-CT93-1533) and a grant from the Netherlands Program for Research on Aging (NESTOR), funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sciences and the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports.
Received February 23, 1999; revision received May 11, 1999; accepted May 18, 1999.
|
References |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionSubjects and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
1. Hershey LA. Dementia associated with stroke. Stroke. 1990;21(suppl II):II-9–II-11.
2. Meyer JS, Rogers RL, McClintic K, Mortel KF, Lotfi J. Randomized clinical trial of daily aspirin therapy in multi-infarct dementia: a pilot study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1989;37:549–555.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
3.
Rich JB, Rasmusson DX, Folstein MF, Carson KA, Kawas
C, Brandt J. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in
Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 1995;45:51–55.
4.
Stürmer T, Glynn RJ, Field TS, Taylor JO,
Hennekens CH. Aspirin use and cognitive function in the elderly.
Am J Epidemiol. 1996;143:683–691.
5.
Richards M, Meade TW, Peart S, Brennan PJ, Mann AH. Is
there any evidence for a protective effect of antithrombotic medication
on cognitive function in men at risk of cardiovascular
disease? Some preliminary findings. J Neurol Neurosurg
Psychiatry. 1997;62:269–272.
6. May FE, Moore MT, Stewart RB, Hale WE. Lack of association of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and cognitive decline in the elderly. Gerontology. 1992;38:275–279.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
7. Henderson AS, Jorm AF, Christensen H, Jacomb PA, Korten AE. Aspirin, anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of dementia. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1997;12:926–930.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
8.
Patrono C. Aspirin as an antiplatelet drug.
N Engl J Med. 1994;330:1287–1294.
9.
van Kooten F, Ciabattoni G, Patrono C, Dippel DW,
Koudstaal PJ. Platelet activation and lipid peroxidation in
patients with acute ischemic stroke. Stroke. 1997;28:1557–1563.
10. van Kooten F, Bots ML, Breteler MM, Haverkate F, van Swieten JC, Grobbee DE, Koudstaal PJ, Kluft C. The Dutch vascular factors in dementia study: rationale and design. J Neurol. 1998;245:32–39.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
11.
Koudstaal PJ, van Gijn J, Staal A, Duivenvoorden HJ,
Gerritsma JGM, Kraaijeveld CL. Diagnosis of transient ischemic
attacks: improvement of interobserver agreement by a detailed checklist
in ordinary language. Stroke.. 1986;17:723–728.
12. Bamford J, Sandercock P, Dennis M, Burn J, Warlow C. Classification and natural history of clinically identifiable subtypes of cerebral infarction. Lancet.. 1991;337:1521–1526.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
13.
Pyörälä K, de Backer G, Graham I,
Poole-Wilson P, Wood D. Prevention of coronary heart disease in
clinical practice: recommendations of the Task Force of the European
Society of Cardiology, European
Atherosclerosis Society, and European Society of
Hypertension. Eur Heart J.. 1994;15:1300–1331.
14.
van Kooten F, Hoogerbrugge N, Naarding P, Koudstaal
PJ. Hyperglycemia in the acute phase of stroke is not caused by
stress. Stroke.. 1993;24:1129–1132.
15.
Blessed G, Tomlinson BE, Roth M. The association
between quantitative measures of dementia and of senile change in the
cerebral gray matter of elderly subjects. Br J
Psychiatry.. 1968;114:797–811.
16. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. "Mini-mental state": a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res.. 1975;12:189–198.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
17. Copeland JR, Dewey ME, Griffiths-Jones HM. A computerized psychiatric diagnostic system and case nomenclature for elderly subjects: GMS and AGECAT. Psychol Med.. 1986;16:89–99.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
18. Derix MM, Hofstede AB, Teunisse S, Hijdra A, Walstra GJ, Weinstein HC, van Gool WA. CAMDEX-N. De Nederlandse versie van de Cambridge examination for mental disorders of the elderly. (CAMDEX-N: the Dutch version of the CAMDEX with computerized data analysis). Tijdschr Gerontol Geriatr.. 1991;22:143–150.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
19. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 3rd ed, rev. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1987.
20.
Román GC, Tatemichi TK, Erkinjuntti T, Cummings
JL, Masdeu JC, Garcia JH, Amaducci L, Orgogozo J-M, Brun A, Hofman A,
Moody DM, O'Brien MD, Yamaguchi T, Grafman J, Drayer BP, Bennet DA,
Fisher M, Ogata J, Kokmen E, Bermejo F, Wolf PA, Gorelick PB, Bick KL,
Pajeau AK, Bell MA, DeCarli C, Culebras A, Korczyn AD,
Bogousslavsky J, Hartmann A, Scheinberg P. Vascular dementia:
diagnostic criteria for research studies: report of the
NINDS-AIREN International Workshop. Neurology.. 1993;43:250–260.
21.
McKhann G, Drachman D, Folstein M, Katzman R, Price D,
Stadlan EM. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: report
of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of
Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease.
Neurology.. 1984;34:939–944.
22.
van Swieten JC, Koudstaal PJ, Visser MC, Schouten HJ,
van Gijn J. Interobserver agreement for the assessment of handicap
in stroke patients. Stroke.. 1988;19:604–607.
23. van Kooten F, Ciabattoni G, Patrono C, Schmitz PI, van Gijn J, Koudstaal PJ. Evidence for episodic platelet activation in acute ischemic stroke. Stroke.. 1994;25:278–281.[Abstract]
24. Ciabattoni G, Maclouf J, Catella F, FitzGerald GA, Patrono C. Radioimmunoassay of 11-dehydro-thromboxane B2 in human plasma and urine. Biochim Biophys Acta.. 1987;918:293–297.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
25. Lee YJ, Jy W, Horstman LL, Janania J, Reyes Y, Kelley RE, Ahn YS. Elevated platelet microparticles in transient ischemic attacks, lacunar infarcts, and multiinfarct dementias. Thromb Res.. 1993;72:295–304.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
26.
FitzGerald GA, Pedersen AK, Patrono C. Analysis
of prostacyclin and thromboxane biosynthesis in
cardiovascular disease. Circulation. 1983;67:1174–1177.
27.
Ott A, Breteler MM, de Bruyne MC, van Harskamp F,
Grobbee DE, Hofman A. Atrial fibrillation and dementia in a
population-based study: the Rotterdam study. Stroke.. 1997;28:316–321.
28.
Censori B, Manara O, Agostinis C, Camerlingo M, Casto
L, Galavotti B, Parziguian T, Servalli MC, Cesana B, Belloni G, Mamoli
A. Dementia after first stroke. Stroke.. 1996;27:1205–1210.
29.
Davì G, Gresele P, Violi F, Basili S, Catalano
M, Giammarresi C, Volpato R, Nenci GG, Ciabattoni G, Patrono C.
Diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, and
hypertension but not vascular disease per se are associated with
persistent platelet activation in vivo: evidence derived from the
study of peripheral arterial disease.
Circulation.. 1997;96:69–75.
30.
Patrignani P, Panara MR, Greco A, Fusco O, Natoli C,
Iacobelli S, Cipollone F, Ganci A, Créminon C, Maclouf J, Patrono
C. Biochemical and pharmacological characterization of the
cyclo-oxygenase activity of human blood
prostaglandin endoperoxide synthases.
J Pharmacol Exp Ther.. 1994;271:1705–1712.
31.
Karim S, Habib A, Lévy-Toledano S, Maclouf J.
Cyclooxygenases-1 and -2 of
endothelial cells utilize exogenous or
endogenous arachidonic acid for
transcellular production of thromboxane.
J Biol Chem. 1996;271:12042–12048.
32.
Cipollone F, Patrignani P, Greco A, Panara MR, Padovano
R, Cuccurullo F, Patrono C, Rebuzzi AG, Liuzzo G, Quaranta G, Maseri A.
Differential suppression of thromboxane biosynthesis by
indobufen and aspirin in patients with unstable angina.
Circulation.. 1997;96:1109–1116.
This article has been cited by other articles:
 |
|
 |
|
  C. Patrono, L. A. Garcia Rodriguez, R. Landolfi, and C. Baigent Low-dose aspirin for the prevention of atherothrombosis. N. Engl. J. Med., December 1, 2005; 353(22): 2373 - 2383. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 E. Y. McLaurin, S. L. Holliday, P. Williams, and R. L. Brey Predictors of cognitive dysfunction in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus Neurology, January 25, 2005; 64(2): 297 - 303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 F. Cipollone, B. Rocca, and C. Patrono Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression and Inhibition in Atherothrombosis Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, February 1, 2004; 24(2): 246 - 255. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||