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“My mum has always been my best friend, my whole life,” says Helen about her mother, Sue. “She was the only person that ever really understood me. “Mum was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2015. I ...

Vascular dementia is the second leading cause of dementia. This disease co-occurs with Alzheimer's disease in the leading cause of dementia, termed "mixed dementia." There is no drug therapy that ...

The same artery-clogging process (atherosclerosis) that causes heart disease can also result in age-related vascular cognitive impairments (VCI), according to a new American Heart Association ...

Helen Rimell’s mother was her rock, “a ray of light in a troubled world,” she says. In 2015, Rimell’s mother was diagnosed with early onset vascular dementia. That’s when Rimell, a ...

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Among participants with vascular risk factors measured at ages 45–54, 21.8% of dementia cases by age 80 were attributable to those risks. This proportion increased to 26.4% when measured at ages ...

The study noted that vascular risk factors contributed to only 2–8% of dementia cases that developed after age 80 — a finding the researchers say highlights the importance of earlier intervention.

The 42-page statement, "Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia," was published online July 21, 2011, in Stroke and will appear in the September issue.

This collection invites research on neuroscience, immunology, hematology and others that explore brain-immune-vascular system disruption contributing to dementia.