title: Dementia due to vascular disease--a multifactorial disorder.
abstract: This review was undertaken to evaluate critically the literature pertaining to vascular dementia with the objective of determining a more useful and scientifically supported definition of vascular dementia, its relation to other causes of dementia, and the biologic mechanisms involved in its causation.
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications