A simple blood test for platelet activity at middle age could one day help identify people at risk for Alzheimer's disease decades ahead of time, allowing for possible preventive therapy.
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Older adults who have a heart attack may be more likely to develop epilepsy later in life, according to a study published in Neurology. While the study shows a link between these conditions, it does not prove cause and effect.
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Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is one of the leading causes of vision loss worldwide, often triggered by chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Similar to a blocked water pipe causing backflow and pressure buildup, ...
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Vascular dementia—cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain's small blood vessels—is a widespread problem, but it has not been as thoroughly studied as Alzheimer's disease, in which abnormal plaques and protein ...
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Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection (tearing) and death in childhood. Currently, there is no effective treatment or cure for MSMDS.
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People with learning disabilities progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are at greater risk of dying from their condition than people without these disabilities, suggests research published in the journal BMJ Open ...
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Matthew Leming, Ph.D., and Hyungsoon Im, Ph.D. of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the co-corresponding authors of a paper published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, "Differential dementia detection ...
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Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses AI to solve the mystery, finding an unaccounted-for factor that ...
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A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can promote brain repair and functional ...
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An international collaboration led by the University of Gothenburg report that cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's pathology—specifically β-amyloid and tau proteins—are also present in individuals ...
Vascular disease is a form of cardiovascular disease primarily affecting the blood vessels.
Some conditions, such as angina and myocardial ischemia, can be considered both vascular diseases and heart diseases.
Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor.
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