2010
DOI: 10.1002/ana.22189
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B‐vitamins reduce the long‐term risk of depression after stroke: The VITATOPS‐DEP trial

Abstract: Long-term treatment of poststroke survivors with folic acid, B6, and B12 was associated with a reduction in the hazard of major depression in our patient population. If these findings can be validated externally, B-vitamin supplementation offers hope as an effective, safe, and affordable intervention to reduce the burden of poststroke depression.

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“…It is a major challenge to develop consistently effective therapy for ischemic stroke. [2][3][4][5][6][7] A core of necrotic cell death is surrounded by a zone of tissue, termed the penumbra, in which the energy metabolism is preserved by constrained blood supply. 8 The penumbra is an important target area for both basic investigators of cerebral ischemia and clinicians who treat stroke patients, whereas the necrotic lesion is irreversible.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is a major challenge to develop consistently effective therapy for ischemic stroke. [2][3][4][5][6][7] A core of necrotic cell death is surrounded by a zone of tissue, termed the penumbra, in which the energy metabolism is preserved by constrained blood supply. 8 The penumbra is an important target area for both basic investigators of cerebral ischemia and clinicians who treat stroke patients, whereas the necrotic lesion is irreversible.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…France (Astorg, et al, 2008), Greece (Dimopoulos, et al, 2007), Japan (Murakami, et al, 2008;Nanri, Mizoue, et al, 2010) Norway (Bjelland, et al, 2003), Singapore (Ng, Niti, Zaw, & Kua, 2009), Spain (Sanchez-Villegas, Doreste, et al, 2009Sanchez-Villegas, et al, 2006), and Australia before 2009 (Almeida, et al, 2010;Sachdev et al, 2005). Fortification of flour with folic acid may have attenuated the effect of folate, which corroborates the aforementioned hypothesis that lower vitamin status may be more strongly associated with depression compared to higher vitamin status due to mandatory fortification.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There was no improvement in depression scores in the treatment group compared to the placebo group 3 months after the start of the treatment (Hvas, Juul, Lauritzen, Nexo, & Ellegaard, 2004). In Australia, five double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized trials involving older adults tested the potential effect of B-vitamin supplementation on depression risk in post-stroke patients (Almeida et al, 2010), on cognition and mood in women (Bryan, Calvaresi, & Hughes, 2002), on the potentiation of antidepressant medication or on the 2-year depression risk in communitydwelling seniors with elevated psychological distress (H. Christensen et al, 2011;Walker et al, 2010), and on the 2-year depression risk in elderly men with a history of or being treated for hypertension (Ford et al, 2008). Only the trial with stroke survivors (n=137, 63.0 ± 11.4y) found a protective effect of daily supplementation with 2 mg folic acid, 25 mg vitamin B6, and 0.5 mg vitamin B12…”
Section: B Vitamins and Depressionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Homocysteine can mediate the formation of cardiovascular disease by several different mechanisms including increased proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative damage, and collagen synthesis. Treatment with B vitamins may reduce homocysteine by ~30% in stroke survivors [32] and reduce the risk of overall stroke in participants with known cardiovascular disease [33,34]. However, numerous factors may modulate the impact of B vitamins on cardiovascular risk in stroke survivors.…”
Section: B Vitamin Supplementation and Cardiovascular Riskmentioning
confidence: 99%