| CPC A61K 31/417 (2013.01) [A61K 31/131 (2013.01); A61K 31/16 (2013.01); A61K 31/165 (2013.01); A61P 9/10 (2018.01)] | 2 Claims | 
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               1. A method for treating cognitive impairment, for delaying or slowing the progression of said cognitive impairment, or for reducing the rate of decline of cognitive function, in a subject having or at risk of having said cognitive impairment or decline of cognitive function, the method comprising administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of an isotope-enriched compound, wherein the cognitive impairment or decline of cognitive function is caused by cerebrovascular disease, vascular dementia, stroke, global cerebral ischemia, or hypoxia and is not amyloid-β related, wherein the isotope-enriched compound has the general Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof: 
            R1R2X—CR2—CH2—CH2—SO3H  (I) 
                where: 
                R1 and R2 are independently a hydrogen of natural abundance or a protecting group which have natural abundance or isotope enriched carbon and/or oxygen, said protecting group being selected from acyl, thiocarbonyl, and carbamoyl groups; 
                  R is a hydrogen of natural abundance, or a deuterium (D), or a combination thereof; and 
                  X is a nitrogen of natural abundance or 15N, or a combination thereof; 
                provided that at least one of X, R, R1 and R2 comprises an atom that is not of natural abundance. 
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