Research update on the etiology and pathogenesis of vascular dementia
ZHONG Rujia
TAO Dingbo
LE Weidong
Abstract：Vascular dementia (VD) is characterized by histopathological damage and pro-gressive intellectual decline produced by cerebral ischemic hypoxia or hemorrhagic lesion.VD is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease and its incidence is increasing with aging.It is generally accepted that brain ischemia-hypoxia is the main cause of VD, but the exact pathogenic mechanisms of VD is still not clearly demonstrated .Therefore, further confirming the eti-ology for VD and exploring the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying have great significance for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of VD in translational medicine.
Keywords：Vascular dementiaTranslational medicineEtiologyRisk factorsPathogenesis
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 193-198 )