Bhatnagar Subhash C, Jain Satish K, Bihari Madhuri, Bansal Naveen K, Pauranik Apoorva, Jain Deep C, Bhatnagar Manav K, Meheshwari M C, Gupta Meena, Padma M V
Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA.
Brain Lang. 2002 Nov;83(2):353-61. doi: 10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00039-1.
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.
在本研究中，我们调查了印度北部说印地语的失语中风患者的临床特征。我们在97名说印地语的右利手个体中研究了年龄和性别与失语类型之间的交互作用，其中大多数人被确诊患有脑血管意外。纳入研究的受试者发病时间从3周至2年不等，诊断为常见的经典失语类型（布罗卡失语、韦尼克失语、命名性失语、完全性失语、传导性失语和经皮质性失语），涵盖男性和女性。由于受试者接受教育的程度不同（从完全文盲到专业/大学教育），我们还研究了识字能力与失语类型之间的相互作用。尽管此处报告的有关说印地语失语症患者的数据与西方国家讨论的年龄 - 失语类型模式相对一致，但仍观察到一些差异。印度失语症患者的平均年龄显著更低。此外，除了一些与性别和识字能力相关的差异外，一个显著的差异是，中风患者并未轻易报告许多已知与失语症同时出现的临床症状。
