title: Vascular dementia: a review of recent evidence for prevention and treatment.
abstract: Vascular dementia is a common cause of late-life cognitive decline. Vascular risk factors, transient ischemic attacks, silent and clinically evident strokes, and ischemic changes on brain imaging studies are all associated with the development of dementia. Prevention of vascular dementia involves treatment of risk factors and the same preventive measures used to avoid heart attacks and strokes. Other treatments for vascular dementia, although promising, remain unproved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, A-0118 Vanderbilt Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. howard.kirshner@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Howard S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kirshner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors