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Pathophysiology of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (II): Amyloid Contribution in Vascular Cognitive Impairment

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Both clinical and preclinical evidences have emerged over the past two decades supporting a strong relationship between vascular risk factors and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Vascular risk factors can induce silent cerebrovascular lesions that lower the threshold of dementia in subjects with AD pathology, and/or it may directly induce the development of AD pathology mediated by neurovascular unit dysfunction. Given vascular risk factors are also associated with stroke, recent studies utilizing in vivo amyloid PET also investigated the role of AD pathology in stroke and poststroke dementia. These studies found that AD pathology can be found in about 30% of patients with poststroke dementia. Its presence significantly lowers the threshold for developing dementia if a stroke occurs and is associated with a rapid cognitive decline in the long term after stroke. Understanding the above relationships between vascular risk factors, AD, and stroke has important implications in the prevention and treatment of AD and vascular cognitive impairment.

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    Ho Ko, Bonnie Yin Ka Lam & Vincent Chung Tong Mok

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  3. Chow Yuk Ho Technology Center for Innovative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China

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  4. Therese Pei Fong Chow Research Centre for Prevention of Dementia, Gerald Choa Neuroscience Centre, Lui Che Woo Institute of Innovative Medicine, Margaret K. L. Cheung Research Centre for Management of Parkinsonism, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China

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Ko, H., Lam, B.Y.K., Mok, V.C.T. (2020). Pathophysiology of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (II): Amyloid Contribution in Vascular Cognitive Impairment. In: Lee, SH., Lim, JS. (eds) Stroke Revisited: Vascular Cognitive Impairment. Stroke Revisited. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1433-8_8

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