What is vascular dementia

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Vascular dementia, as the name suggests, is a kind of dementia. Can cause anxiety, jealousy and dizziness and other benign diseases. It brings great influence and trouble to patients' life and family. Let's talk about vascular dementia.

What is vascular dementia

First, vascular dementia (VAD or VD) refers to the severe cognitive dysfunction syndrome caused by ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke and cerebrovascular diseases that cause low perfusion of memory, cognition and behavior. The prevalence of VD in China is 1.1% to 3%, and the incidence rate is 5 to 9/1000 per year.

Second, it can cause memory damage. It is manifested in the difficulty of learning new knowledge and new things. In the memory test for patients, it can be found that when patients recall words or objects, their memory declines, mainly due to the near memory impairment. However, due to the existence of patients' insight, they will try their best to make compensation. Their self-care ability, social ability, understanding and judgment ability can be maintained in good condition for a long time.

Third: the patient's ability to use language is declining: the patient's ability to understand language is declining when communicating with others. Therefore, it is an expressive language dysfunction. Sometimes simple conversation can't show any difference. For more complex communication or long-term conversation, it will be found that the patient has mild impairment in the ability to express and understand language.

matters needing attention

Vascular dementia is one of the common causes of senile dementia. Therefore, we should pay more attention to the ordinary life of the elderly to prevent them from suffering from this disease. If there are elderly people around who have suffered from vascular dementia, then we need to pay more attention and care.