Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Brain Health
Updated: May 26, 2026
- This paper updates the 2011 Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia scientific statement.
- Age related cognitive impairment has been established as a multi etiology process driven by interactions between vascular factors and the interconnections of aging.
- The recognition that vascular factors are involved not only in VCID by also in Alzheimer’s Disease, has led to the understanding that cognitive impairment as we age is a multiple etiology process (i.e., mixed, or co-existing brain pathologies) and thus must be multi-mechanistic in origin.
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