All about Vascular Dementia
Apart from the common stroke symptoms like body paralysis or loss of sensation, there are others including decline in “cognitive” mental functions of memory, speech, language, thinking, organization, reasoning or judgment. If these symptoms severely affect the patient’s life, it is called vascular dementia as it is stroke related.
The prevalence rate of dementia is 9 times higher in patients who had a stroke than in people who didn’t. One year after a stroke, 25% of patients develop new-onset dementia. Within 4 years following a stroke, the relative risk of incident dementia is 5.5%.
Onset can be gradual or dramatic. Regardless of the rate of appearance, vascular dementia typically progresses in a stepwise fashion, where lapses in memory and reasoning abilities are followed by periods of stability. Continue reading
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