Is sticky blood a treatable determinant of cognitive decline and of dementia?

摘要

The traditional saying 'a man is as old as his arteries' implies that vascular factors play a role in dementia, and there is increasing evidence for this hypothesis from epidemiological studies. Such evidence has recently been reviewed by investi- Gators in the Dutch Study on Vascular Factors in Dementia, which was based on the Rotterdam popula- Tion study and the Rotterdam Stroke Data bank [1].