The vascular contribution to dementia: World Stroke Organisation scientific statement

This World Stroke Organisation (WSO) scientific statement brings together a multidisciplinary group of international Scientists and Clinicians who have reviewed the vascular contribution to dementia, highlighting advances in diagnosis, biomarkers, imaging, and emerging therapeutic strategies targeting vascular pathway.

The WSO have updated and published, "The vascular contribution to dementia: World Stroke Organization scientific statement", which is available from the International Journal of Stroke.

The vascular contribution to dementia: World Stroke Organization scientific statement 

Within this publication the authors have summarised the epidemiology, neuropathology, cognitive profile, clinical impact and management of vascular disease in dementia and discuss the recent VasCog-2-WSO diagnostic criteria.

The main conclusions drawn regarding the vascular contribution to dementia are: 

  1. Substantial
  2. Increasingly understood at molecular and mechanistic levels
  3. A source of potential treatment opportunities

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