Vascular Dementia Research Progress

Vascular dementia is the second common type of senile dementia besides of Alzheimer dementia. In china, the prevalence above the age of 60 is about 1.5 percent. The main cause is ischemic or hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease. According to the risk factors for cerebrovascular disease and stroke attack history and clinical performance and examinations, diagnosis can be made. Pharmaceutical prevention and treatment is focus on controlling risk factors, improving the cerebral circulation, promoting brain metabolism and inhibiting cholinesterase. Studies show that controlling risk factors, early diagnosis and medicine treatment could have a significant effect on the incidence and progress of vascular dementia.