Pascoe M, et al. - Researchers conducted this cross-sectional study from a metropolitan University Hospital in Sweden to explore the connection between the modifiable risk factors, serum cholesterol, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, serum triglycerides, BMI and smoking status on cognitive function, while controlling for the non-modifiable factors, acute functional impairment, diabetes status and age. Participants in the study were 149 older adults. According to hierarchical linear regression, only acute functional impairment in stroke survivors contributed significantly to long-term cognitive impairment. The authors discovered that cognitive outcomes in older stroke surviving people were not influenced by serum cholesterol, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, serum triglycerides, BMI or smoking status. Such results indicate that alteration of these variables may not affect cognitive outcomes in stroke survivors, but should be viewed in the current study as provisional provided limitations.