Education and racial disparities in post-stroke cognitive decline

Low educational attainment and Black race are risk factors for post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia. In the general older adult population, the effect of education on the number of years lived with dementia has been shown to vary by race. What is not known is how education moderates race differences in cognitive decline and dementia after stroke. This pilot project will leverage data from pooled longitudinal cohorts to evaluate whether education partially accounts for race differences in cognitive trajectories after stroke and whether the effect of education on post-stroke cognitive trajectories differs by race.