Cardiovascular risk factors, complex coronary artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease are increasingly recognized as playing a major role in dementia and other degenerative brain diseases.
Our appreciation of the complexity of cardiovascular disease is growing rapidly. Consistent with the fact that the vasculature is an omnipresent system that carries blood to every organ in the body, an expanding number of conditions are now known to be directly associated with disturbed cardiovascular function or vascular pathology. In particular, cardiovascular disease has recently been implicated as playing a major role in dementia and other forms of degenerative brain disease. Here, we explore some of the many emerging relationships between cardiovascular risk factors, complex coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, and degenerative brain disease.
Kovacic et al. (Sun,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and degenerative brain disease. Cardiovascular risk factors, complex coronary artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease are increasingly recognized as playing a major role in dementia and other degenerative brain diseases.