..., 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...

... Group designed to improve design, conduct and reporting of dementia biomarker studies. Correspondence: Terence J. Quinn ( [email protected] ) 24 2 2017 27 2 2017 28 2 2017 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...