Hypertension, multi-infarct dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Retrospective review of 89 patients with pre-senile dementia followed by necropsy indicated significant differences between sub types of dementia. Patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID, 27 subjects) more often had cardiovascular abnormalities than patients with Alzheimer's disease (46 subjects). No patients with MID alone had a systolic blood pressure below 140 mm Hg, whereas 23 of 46 Alzheimer subjects and three of 16 patients with mixed features had such a systolic pressure.
D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies