A new dawn of preventing dementia by preventing cerebrovascular diseases

Yuesong Pan; Hao Li; Joanna M Wardlaw; Yongjun Wang

doi:10.1136/bmj.m3692

A new dawn of preventing dementia by preventing cerebrovascular diseases

BMJ. 2020 Oct 9:371:m3692. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3692.

Authors

Yuesong Pan^{1

2}, Hao Li^{1

2}, Joanna M Wardlaw³, Yongjun Wang^{4

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
² China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China.
³ Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China [email protected].

Abstract

Yuesong Pan and colleagues discuss the relation between cerebrovascular diseases and impairment of cognition, with an emphasis on a chance to prevent dementia by preventing cerebrovascular diseases

MeSH terms

Cerebrovascular Disorders / prevention & control*
Cerebrovascular Disorders / psychology
Cognitive Dysfunction / etiology
Cognitive Dysfunction / prevention & control*
Dementia / etiology
Dementia / prevention & control*
Health Promotion / methods
Health Promotion / trends*
Humans