Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of ABN had a consensus meeting to write recommendations on treatment of vascular dementia, there was no previous issue. This disease has numerous particularities and can be considered a preventable dementia. Prevention treatment is primary care of vascular risk factors or a secondary prevention of factors that could cause recurrence of isch...

Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second commonest cause of dementia. Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults in developed countries, the second major cause of dementia and the third commonest cause of death. Traditional vascular risk factors-diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension and smoking-are implicated as risk factors for VaD. The associations between cholesterol and small ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Clock Drawing Tests are commonly used for cognitive screening, but their clinical utility has not yet been studied in Chinese Singaporeans. We examined the usefulness of a Clock Drawing Test, CLOX, in detecting dementia in our population and explored its performance in the dementia subtypes, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the vascular composite group (VCG) of AD with cerebrovascu...

SUMMARY Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the two most common types of dementia. It becomes difficult to distinguish between two, especially when there no specific genetic causes or changes apparent. The aim this review was identify biomarkers supporting diagnosis by conducting a literature search for systematic reviews observational studies. We found seven studies meeting our inclu...

The term vascular cognitive impairment designates a heterogenous group of disorders ranging from mild cognitive impairment to full-blown dementia vascular dementia resulting from cerebrovascular lesions involving various brain areas. Current clinical criteria show moderate sensitivity (50-56%) and variable specifi city (range 64-98%). The prevalence in autopsy series ranges from 0.03 to 58% (me...