Aphasia type and aging in Hindi-speaking stroke patients.
In this study, the clinical profile of Hindi-speaking stroke patients with aphasia from northern India has been investigated. We examined the interactional effect between age and gender with aphasia type in 97 Hindi-speaking right-handed individuals, the majority of them with a confirmed diagnosis of a cerebrovascular accident. The subjects included in the study ranged from 3 weeks to two years post-onset with a diagnosis of a common classical aphasia (Broca's, Wernicke's, anomic, global, conduction, and transcortical) types involving both males and females. Also examined was the interaction between literacy and aphasia type since the subjects had varied exposures to education (total illiteracy to professional/university education). While the data reported here about Hindi-speaking aphasics are relatively in agreement with the age-aphasia type patterns discussed in western countries, nonetheless some differences were also observed. The mean age of Indian patients with aphasia was significantly lower. Also, in addition to some gender and literacy related differences, an outstanding difference was that many clinical symptoms that are known to co-occur with aphasia were not readily reported by subjects with stroke.
Bhatnagar
Subhash C
SC
Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA. subbash.bhatnagar@marquette.edu
Jain
Satish K
SK
Bihari
Madhuri
M
Bansal
Naveen K
NK
Pauranik
Apoorva
A
Jain
Deep C
DC
Bhatnagar
Manav K
MK
Meheshwari
M C
MC
Gupta
Meena
M
Padma
M V
MV
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications*