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The overlap between vascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease - lessons from pathology

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, November 2014
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Title
The overlap between vascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease - lessons from pathology
Published in
BMC Medicine, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0206-2
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Johannes Attems, Kurt A Jellinger

Abstract

Recent epidemiological and clinico-pathological data indicate considerable overlap between cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and suggest additive or synergistic effects of both pathologies on cognitive decline. The most frequent vascular pathologies in the aging brain and in AD are cerebral amyloid angiopathy and small vessel disease. Up to 84% of aged subjects show morphological substrates of CVD in addition to AD pathology. AD brains with minor CVD, similar to pure vascular dementia, show subcortical vascular lesions in about two-thirds, while in mixed type dementia (AD plus vascular dementia), multiple larger infarcts are more frequent. Small infarcts in patients with full-blown AD have no impact on cognitive decline but are overwhelmed by the severity of Alzheimer pathology, while in early stages of AD, cerebrovascular lesions may influence and promote cognitive impairment, lowering the threshold for clinically overt dementia. Further studies are warranted to elucidate the many hitherto unanswered questions regarding the overlap between CVD and AD as well as the impact of both CVD and AD pathologies on the development and progression of dementia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 494 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 80 16%
Researcher 69 14%
Student > Master 59 12%
Student > Bachelor 53 11%
Other 27 5%
Other 83 17%
Unknown 128 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 93 19%
Neuroscience 79 16%
Psychology 42 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 29 6%
Other 59 12%
Unknown 156 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2023.
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#1,848,645
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#1,296
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#20,738
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#29
of 85 outputs
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