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ArticleDialogues in clinical neuroscience2003

Is the distinction between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia possible and relevant?

Ramit Ravona-Springer, Michael Davidson, Shlomo Noy

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Article in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Drug treatments in Alzheimer's disease.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2016
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  9. The elderly patients on hemodialysis.Minerva urologica e nefrologica = The Italian journal of urology and nephrology · 2010
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ramit Ravona-SpringerSackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Michael Davidson
Shlomo Noy

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in epidemiological, clinical, imaging, and neuropathological studies have undermined the clear distinction between vascular and Alzheimer-type dementia, which has characterized the last two decades of research in dementia. A significant degree of overlap between the two entities was demonstrated in terms of clinical expression, risk factors, and postmortem brain autopsy. In this article, we propose mechanisms by which cardiovascular risk factors might affect the manifestation of Alzheimer's disease, suggest possible explanations for the overlap with vascular dementia, and discuss the implications this might have on future differential diagnosis and treatment strategies.

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Alzheimer's diseaseapolipoprotein Ecardiovascular risk factorcholesteroldiabeteshyperhomocysteinemiavascular dementia

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PMID22033677
PMCPMC3181710

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