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Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia: Some Points of Confluence
Author(s) -
AGÜEROTORRES HEDDA,
WINBLAD BENGT
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06412.x
Subject(s) - vascular dementia , dementia , disease , alzheimer's disease , vascular disease , medicine , degenerative disease , neuroscience , psychology , pathology , psychiatry
A bstract : The lack of biologic markers for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, the controversy regarding the definition of vascular dementia, and the new evidence of vascular risk factors for Alzheimer's disease suggest that the traditional differentiation between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia is no longer very clear. We believe that both vascular and degenerative mechanisms contribute to the development of dementia, especially in very old age. The question of whether they are two independent parallel processes or interacting pathologies needs to be clarified.