What Is Vascular Dementia? Defining, Diagnosing, and Treating a Serious Brain Disease

What is vascular dementia? It refers to a spectrum of cognitive impairments resulting from damage to blood vessels in the brain. Stroke, either a significant singular stroke or multiple smaller strokes, is a major cause of vascular dementia (VaD), but any disease process that damages blood vessels in the brain … Read More

What Is Vascular Dementia and How Does High Blood Pressure Cause It?

UHN Staff

Vascular dementia, the second leading kind of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, is relatively unknown and unrecognized by the general population compared to Alzheimer’s. Yet it is responsible for at least 20 percent of cases of dementia.[1] The majority of dementia sufferers actually have both Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia; this … Read More

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What Is Vascular Dementia? Defining, Diagnosing, and Treating a Serious Brain Disease

What Is Vascular Dementia and How Does High Blood Pressure Cause It?

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