..., vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), and are increasingly implicated in AD [ 14 , 15 ]. Seventy million patients are hypertensive, and 40% of patients with dementia have elevated blood pressure [ 2 , 3 , 17 ]. The Medicare costs for the treatment of hypertension and stroke are $46 and $130 billion per year...

...Seth Love; J. Scott Miners The contribution of vascular disease to cognitive impairment is under-recognized and the pathogenesis is poorly understood. This information gap has multiple causes, including a lack of post-mortem validation of clinical diagnoses of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI...

... samples [ 2 ]. Advances in technology are helping us overcome this problem and increasingly sophisticated neuroimaging can give us impressive visualizations of cerebral structure and function in vivo . biomarkers dementia sensitivity/specificity test accuracy vascular cognitive impairment...

...Gary A. Rosenberg Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) include a wide spectrum of chronic manifestations of vascular disease related to large vessel strokes and small vessel disease (SVD). Lacunar strokes and white matter (WM) injury are consequences of SVD. The main vascular risk...