Vascular Dementia: Distinguishing Characteristics, Treatment, and Prevention
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 51 (5s2), S296-S304
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.5155.x
Abstract
Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second‐most‐common cause of dementia in the elderly, after Alzheimer's disease (AD). VaD is defined as loss of cognitive function resulting from ischemic, hypoperfusive...This publication has 59 references indexed in Scilit:
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