In vascular dementia patients, long-term cerebrolysin therapy improved cognitive function at early and late treatment stages regardless of disease severity.
In plain wordsIn vascular dementia patients, cerebrolysin improved thinking abilities during early and late treatment stages compared with their initial condition.
- Peptide
- Cerebrolysin
- Outcome
- IncreaseCognitive function
- Study
n = 48
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 3 yearsAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
The long-term therapy with cerebrolysin was shown to be safe and highly efficacious as indicated by the improvement of cognitive and motor functions both at early and late stages of the treatment regardless of the severity of the disease.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
This open study was designed to assess efficacy and safety of long-term therapy with cerebrolysin in 48 patients aged 59-77 years with mild and moderately severe vascular dementia.
The slowdown in the progress of this condition during the 3-year treatment period was evaluated.