When it comes to dementia in the elderly, people first think of "Alzheimer's disease." However, many people do not know that there are many types of dementia in the elderly, such as: vascular dementia, Parkinson's disease dementia, and dementia caused by inflammation, poisoning, and tumors.
Today we focus on vascular dementia.
The distribution of dementia accounts for 60% of Alzheimer's disease, 10% of mixed dementia, and about 5% of simple vascular dementia. Nearly half of people with vascular dementia also have Alzheimer's disease.
How is vascular dementia different from Alzheimer's disease?
Alzheimer's disease often develops gradually, and it is generally impossible to determine the specific time of onset. In the early days, it is easily overlooked, and only manifests itself in memory decline and reduced abstract reasoning ability, such as often not remembering what has just been done, and sometimes repeating certain problems continuously.
As the disease progresses, it can not only cause memory deterioration, but also damage cognitive functions, such as: the ability to use items, numeracy and language.
Vascular dementia often develops suddenly, and the specific time of onset can generally be determined. Symptoms depend on the location and cause of the brain injury. Some patients have cognitive decline, but most are predominantly computational and memory loss, and less commonly associated with impairment other than cognitive function.
People with high blood pressure are more susceptible to vascular dementia
Like hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia are vascular risk factors, blood vessel aging, hardening and brittleness can easily cause brain cardiovascular rupture, causing cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, leading to the occurrence of vascular "dementia".
What are the typical symptoms of vascular dementia? How to scientifically prevent vascular dementia? What are the characteristics of TCM treatment? Tonight at 6:00, The news channel of Shandong Radio and Television Station "Healthy Shandong" will be unveiled for you.
Invited Experts:
Wang Lei, Chief Physician, Professor, Master Supervisor, Deputy Director of the Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He is the vice chairman of the Stem Cell Clinical Research and Application Branch of Shandong Medical Association, and a director of Shandong Alzheimer's Disease Prevention and Control Association. Good at the diagnosis and treatment of various types of cerebrovascular diseases in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine; Combined traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine for various types of dementia such as senile dementia and vascular dementia; Headache, dizziness, sleep disorders, neurosomatic diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, motor neuron diseases combined with traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment.
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