Brain, Vol. 124, No. 9, 1877-1879,
September 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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VASCULAR DEMENTIA
Edited by John Stirling Meyer, Gaiane M. Rauch, Helmut Lechner and Carlo Loeb. 2000. Armonk: Futura Publishing Company. Price US $88. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-87993-425-5.
Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The prevalence of dementia dramatically increases in ageing populations, affecting 1% of 60–64 year olds, and up to 40% of those over age 85 years. This devastating disease poses a large burden on the patients and their families, but also on the health care system in general in terms of the enormous costs involved. Vascular dementia is the second most frequent type of dementia, just behind Alzheimer's disease, although the clinical distinction between these two forms of dementia is becoming more and more difficult as there is increasing evidence for the involvement of vascular risk factors, even for pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease. This book addresses topics on epidemiology (prevalence, incidence, risk factors, diagnosis and prognosis), treatment, neuroimaging and neuropathology of vascular dementia.
Chapter 1 is an